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Author Burgess, John P., 1948-

Title A subject with no object : strategies for nominalistic interpretation of mathematics / John P. Burgess and Gideon Rosen
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) : illustrations
Contents Philosophical And Technical Background -- A Common Framework for Strategies -- Three Major Strategies -- A Geometric Strategy -- A Purely Modal Strategy -- A Mixed Modal Strategy -- Further Strategies And A Provisional Assessment -- Miscellaneous Strategies -- Strategies in the Literature
Summary A Subject With No Object is a study of philosophical attempts to interpret mathematics in nominalistic terms, that is to give an account of mathematics in terms of the doctrine that there are no such things as mathematical objects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index
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Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Rosen, Gideon A
Oxford University Press
LC no. 96028175
ISBN 9780191597138
0191597139
9780191519024
0191519022