Indispensability and the problem of compatible explanations. A reply to `Should scientific realists be Platonists?'

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0667-7zbMATH Open1358.00099OpenAlexW115377556MaRDI QIDQ516227FDOQ516227

Authors: Josh Hunt 

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0667-7

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zbMATH Keywords

underdeterminationinference to the best explanationenhanced indispensability argumentmathematical explanationmathematical nominalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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