How to be a structuralist all the way down

نویسنده

  • Elaine Landry
چکیده

This paper considers the nature and role of axioms from the point of view of the current debates about the status of category theory and, in particular, in relation to the “algebraic” approach tomathematical structuralism.My aim is to show that category theory has as much to say about an algebraic consideration of meta-mathematical analyses of logical structure as it does about mathematical analyses of mathematical structure, without either requiring an assertory mathematical or meta-mathematical background theory as a “foundation”, or turning meta-mathematical analyses of logical concepts into “philosophical” ones. Thus, we can use category theory to frame an interpretation of mathematics according to which we can be structuralists all the way down.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Synthese

دوره 179  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011