The indispensability argument and the nature of mathematical objects

DOI10.1387/THEORIA.17613MaRDI QIDQ5205209zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matteo Plebani

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.17613

zbMATH Keywords

heavy duty Platonismindispensability argumentmetaphysical grounding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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