Science Without Numbers

Hartry Field

Science Without Numbers

Princeton University Press (1980)

Abstract	Science Without Numbers caused a stir in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for twenty years and is now reissued in a revised edition with a substantial new preface presenting the author's current views and responses to the issues raised in subsequent debate.
Keywords	nominalism
Categories	Ontological Commitment in Metaphysics Quantification and Ontology in Philosophy of Language (categorize this paper)
Reprint years	2016
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ISBN(s)	0631126724 9780198777915
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