New directions for nominalist philosophers of mathematics

DOI10.1007/S11229-009-9489-9MaRDI QIDQ625702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles Chihara

Publication date 25 February 2011

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9489-9

zbMATH Keywords

fictionalismgroup theoryindispensability argumentnominalismnonstandard analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Nonstandard models in mathematics (03H05)

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