The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces

DOI10.1093/PHILMAT/NKM025MaRDI QIDQ3515127zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aidan Lyon, Mark Colyvan

Publication date 25 July 2008

Published in Philosophia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3f74b2bfa94be3ca0ec94685bd7b145ab83d6df0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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