Is indispensability still a problem for fictionalism?

zbMATH Open1156.03310MaRDI QIDQ3597508FDOQ3597508

Authors: Susan Vineberg 

Publication date: 9 February 2009

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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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