A Trivialist's Travails

Philosophia Mathematica 22 (3):380-401 (2014)
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This paper is an exposition and evaluation of the Agustín Rayo's views about the epistemology and metaphysics of mathematics, as they are presented in his book The Construction of Logical Space.

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10.1093/philmat/nku015

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The foundations of arithmetic.Gottlob Frege - 1884/1950 - Evanston, Ill.,: Northwestern University Press.
Saving truth from paradox.Hartry Field - 2008 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Inquiry.Robert Stalnaker - 1984 - Cambridge University Press.
Mathematical truth.Paul Benacerraf - 1973 - Journal of Philosophy 70 (19):661-679.
The Indispensability of Mathematics.Mark Colyvan - 2001 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

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