Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism

Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press (1980)
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Science Without Numbers caused a stir in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for twenty years and is now reissued in a revised edition with a substantial new preface presenting the author's current views and responses to the issues raised in subsequent debate.

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Q175.F477 2016

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0631126724   0198777922   9780198777915   9780198777922   0198777914   9780631126720   0691072604   0631130373   9780691072609   9780191823381   0691628122
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Nominalism and the Structure of Physical Space

Argues that the Hilbert theory of the previous chapter not only dispenses with real numbers, but is (or can be made with a little rewriting) a genuinely nominalistic theory of the structure of physical space. Arguing this involves a brief discussion of some questions in the philosophy of s... see more

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