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A fictionalist account of the indispensable applications of mathematics
Philosophical Studies 83 (3):291 - 314 (1996)
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The main task of this paper is to defend anti-platonism by providing an anti-platonist (in particular, a fictionalist) account of the indispensable applications of mathematics to empirical science.Author's Profile
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Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism.Hartry H. Field - 1980 - Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.
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