Where Do the Cardinal Numbers Come From?

Synthese 84 (3):347-407 (1990)
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This paper presents a model-theoretic semantics for discourse "about" natural numbers, one that captures what I call "the mathematical-object picture", but avoids what I can "the mathematical-object theory".

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1983

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0022362X

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10.5840/jphil198380supplementtoissue105

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Frege's conception of numbers as objects.Crispin Wright - 1983 - [Aberdeen]: Aberdeen University Press.
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Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects.Crispin Wright - 1983 - Critical Philosophy 1 (1):97.
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