Taming the Infinite [Book Review]

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (4):609-619 (1996)
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A critique of Shaughan Lavine's attempt in /Understanding the Infinite/ to reduce talk about the infinite to finitely comprehensible terms.

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Principles of Mathematics.Bertrand Russell - 1903 - New York,: Routledge.
Principles of Mathematics.Bertrand Russell - 1937 - New York,: Routledge.
Understanding the infinite.Shaughan Lavine - 1994 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Understanding the Infinite.Shaughan Lavine & Stewart Shapiro - 1994 - Studia Logica 63 (1):123-128.

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