Mathematics and Reality

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2010
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Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.

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Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 22 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 0199280797
ISBN 13: 9780199280797

Mathematics and Reality

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