Recent historical studies have investigated the first proponents of methodological structuralism in late nineteenth-century mathematics. In this paper, I shall attempt to answer question whether Peano can be counted amongst early structuralists. focus on Peano’s understanding primitive notions and axioms geometry arithmetic. First, argue that undefinability arithmetic led study relational featu...

In this journal, D. Rizza [2010: 176] expounded a solution of what he called “the indiscernibility problem for ante rem structuralism”, which is the problem to make sense of the presence, in structures, of objects that are indiscernible yet distinct, by only appealing to what that structure provides. We argue that Rizza’s solution is circular and expound a different solution that not only solve...

One of the central tenets of structuralism is that the sign relation, i.e. the connection between words (linguistic form) and concepts is arbitrary. Firstly, the way that linguistic material is divided into words is arbitrary, Secondly, the way that the world is divided into concepts is arbitrary. Saussure focused on the study of language as a structure (langue), as he considered the concrete u...

the non-linear order of revelations is often considered by many scholars to signify lack of coherence, disunity, and fragmentariness. it seems that 'coherence' and the related terms have veiled a significant linguistic feature of the qur’an, namely, the non-linear nature of revelations, which might be used to make a distinction between ordinary and quranic discourse. we will argue that to unvei...