Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

by Charles Parsons

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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'...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521119111

ISBN13:9780521119115

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.29 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Math Mathematics Philosophy Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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