Mathematics, Meaning, and Commitment

This thesis offers a defence of realism in mathematics, principally through an a priori re-construal of the indispensability argument as revelatory of the commitments of mathematical thought. Following the articulation and defence of that argument—called the ‘argument from constraint’—in the first c...

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Main Author: SMITH, Mark Charles Reginald
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1869