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Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

By Charles Parsons

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521452791, 9780521452793, 9780511378676
LCC
QA8.4 .P366 2008
Open Library ID
OL10435626M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2626584 bytes)
Pages
400\400
Library
mexmat
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

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.

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