Nominalism versus realism

MaRDI QIDQ988037zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Corfield

Publication date 24 August 2010

Published in European Mathematical Society Newsletter (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conservatism of mathematicsmathematical practiceNominalism and realism in mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03)

Review text

The author looks at the nominalism/realism debate from the angle of the history of mathematics, stressing the `conservatism` of mathematics. He comes to the conclusion that `mathematical realism in the internal sense may be thought to be that which allows mathematics to proceed as a tradition of intellectual enquiry.`

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