Living in Harmony: Nominalism and the Explanationist Argument for Realism

DOI10.1080/02698590701305743zbMATH Open1118.00008OpenAlexW2008707413MaRDI QIDQ5308985FDOQ5308985

Authors: Juha T. Saatsi 

Publication date: 9 October 2007

Published in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02698590701305743

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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