Frege, Hilbert, and Structuralism
The central question of this thesis is: what is mathematics about? The answer arrived at by the thesis is an unsettling and unsatisfying one. By examining two of the most promising contemporary accounts of the nature of mathematics, I conclude that neither is as yet capable of giving us a conclusive...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31937 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-2700 |