Internalism, externalism, and beyond: 19th-century British algebra

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2MaRDI QIDQ759735zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Helena M. Pycior

Publication date 1984

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean algebranominalismGeorge BerkeleyDugald Stewartformal operationsimaginary numbersmeaning of symbolsontology of mathematical objectssound reasoningsymbolical algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03)

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