Is indispensability still a problem for fictionalism?

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Authors Susan Vineberg

Publication date 9 February 2009

zbMATH Keywords

indispensability argumentsmathematical realism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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• Evading truth commitments: the problem reanalyzed
• Grounding and the indispensability argument
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