The enhanced indispensability argument, the circularity problem, and the interpretability strategy

DOI10.1007/S11229-019-02263-0MaRDI QIDQ2695151zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan Heylen, Lars Arthur Tump

Publication date 30 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02263-0

zbMATH Keywords

nominalismPlatonismindispensabilitymathematical explanationFrege arithmeticHume's principlerelative interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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