Publication:4388799

Publication date: 10 May 1998

evidence; realism; formalism; philosophy of mathematics; patterns; structuralism; indispensability argument; mathematical objects; modal-structuralism; mathematical epistemology; mathematical ontology; disquotational theory of truth; mathematical/physical distinction; Quine-Putnam indispensibility thesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

00A30: Philosophy of mathematics

03A05: Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations

03-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematical logic and foundations

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