Paolo Mancosu.*Abstraction and Infinity [Book Review]

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Philosophia Mathematica 27 (1):125-152 (2019)
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MancosuPaolo.* *ion and Infinity. Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-19-872462-9. Pp. viii + 222.

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