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Conceptual Contingency and Abstract Existence

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posted on 2023-05-16, 12:33 authored by Colyvan, M
I discuss the issue of whether the existence or non-existence of mathematical entities is a contingent matter. I focus on the debate between Hartry Field and Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, and I argue that a good reason for accepting that mathematical entities contingently exist or contingently fail to exist has been overlooked by all participants in this debate. © The Editors of The Philosophical Quarterly, 2000.

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Publication title

The Philosophical Quarterly

Volume

50

Issue

No 198

Pagination

87-91

ISSN

0031-8094

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Place of publication

Oxford

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  • Restricted

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