Mathematical Thought and its Objects
Cambridge University Press (2008)
| Abstract | In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a “nature” than that confers on them | |||||||||
| Keywords | Mathematics Philosophy Object (Philosophy Logic | |||||||||
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| Call number | QA8.4.P366 2008 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521452791 9780521452793 | |||||||||
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