Review of Keith Hossack, Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number: What Numbers Are and How They Are Known [Book Review]

Philosophia Mathematica 30 (1):127-129 (2022)
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Hossack presents a clearly argued case that numbers (cardinals, ordinals, and ratios) are not objects (as Platonists think), nor properties of objects, but properties of quantities.

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