Criteria of Identity and Structuralist Ontology

DOI10.1093/philmat/nkm039zbMath1162.03306MaRDI QIDQ3616423

Hannes Leitgeb, James Ladyman

Publication date: 25 March 2009

Published in: Philosophia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/philmat/nkm039

zbMATH Keywords

graph theory; automorphisms; principle of the identity of indiscernibles; structuralist ontologies of mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

00A30: Philosophy of mathematics

03A05: Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations

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