Logical Consequence for Nominalists

It is often claimed that nominalistic programmes to reconstruct mathematics fail, since they will at some point involve the notion of logical consequence which is unavailable to the nominalist. In this paper we use an idea of Goodman and Quine to develop a nominalistically acceptable explication of...

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Main Authors: Marcus Rossberg, Daniel Cohnitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2009-12-01
Series:THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/440