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

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

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• Can the new indispensability argument be saved from Euclidean rescues?
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• Mathematics and reality
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• New directions for nominalist philosophers of mathematics

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