Philosophy of Mathematics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

Philosophy of Mathematics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)
Publisher: North Holland | 2009 | 733 Pages | ISBN: 0444515550 | DJVU | 5.77 MB

One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects in some non-physical, mathematical realm? Are they ideas that are present only in the mind? Or do mathematical truths not involve referents of any kind?

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