Review of An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: Mathematics as the Science of Quantity and Structure [Book Review]

Philosophia Christi 17 (1):225-230 (2015)
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Abstract

James Franklin aspires to a realist view of mathematical objects as concrete, rather than abstract, objects. It is shown that he fails to carry out his program but is forced to revert to Platonism.

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