David Armstrong on the Metaphysics of Mathematics
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چکیده
This paper has two components. The first, longer component (sec. 1-6) is a critical exposition of Armstrong's views about the metaphysics mathematics, as they are presented in Truth and Truthmakers Sketch for Systematic Metaphysics. In particular, I discuss nature cardinal numbers, his account how modal truths made true. second 7), which shorter more tentative, sketch an alternative mathematics. suggest we insist that mathematical have physical truthmakers, without insisting objects themselves part world.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dialectica
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0012-2017', '1746-8361']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48106/dial.v74.i4.05