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Author Potter, Michael D.

Title Reason's nearest kin : philosophies of arithmetic from Kant to Carnap / Michael Potter
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 305 pages)
Contents Kant -- Grundlagen -- Dedekind -- Frege's account of classes -- Russell's account of classes -- The Tractatus -- The second edition of Principia -- Ramsey -- Hilbert's programme -- Gödel -- Carnap
Summary How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? This text examines the progress made towards answering these questions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-298) and index
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Subject Arithmetic -- Philosophy
MATHEMATICS -- Arithmetic.
Rekenkunde.
Filosofie.
Aritmética (filosofia)
Filosofia Da MatemÁtica.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191520228
0191520225
Other Titles Philosophies of arithmetic from Kant to Carnap