The Sydney School an Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics
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An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics
Most of the traditional problems in the philosophy of mathematics arise, in 6 James Franklin’s words, out of the ‘oscillation between Platonism and nomi7 nalism, as if those were the only alternatives’ (p. 11). In An Aristotelian Re8 alist Philosophy of Mathematics Franklin develops a tantalizing alternative to 9 these approaches by arguing that at least some mathematical universals exist 10 in...
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