Explanation, Extrapolation, and Existence
Mark Colyvan (2010) raises two problems for ‘easy road’ nominalism about mathematical objects. The first is that a theory’s mathematical commitments may run too deep to permit the extraction of nominalistic content. Taking the math out is, or could be, like taking the hobbits out of Lord of the Ring...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85648 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-8323 |