Reconciling Anti-Nominalism and Anti-Platonism in Philosophy of Mathematics

Disputatio 11 (20) (2022)
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Abstract

The author reviews and summarizes, in as jargon-free way as he is capable of, the form of anti-platonist anti-nominalism he has previously developed in works since the 1980s, and considers what additions and amendments are called for in the light of such recently much-discussed views on the existence and nature of mathematical objects as those known as hyperintensional metaphysics, natural language ontology, and mathematical structuralism.

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