Weaseling and the Content of Science

Mind 121 (484):997-1005 (2012)
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I defend Joseph Melia’s nominalist account of mathematics from an objection raised by Mark Colyvan

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10.1093/mind/fzs112

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The Indispensability of Mathematics.Mark Colyvan - 2001 - Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
Platonism and anti-Platonism in mathematics.Mark Balaguer - 1998 - New York: Oxford University Press.
There is No Easy Road to Nominalism.M. Colyvan - 2010 - Mind 119 (474):285-306.
Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics.Mark Balaguer - 1998 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 8 (4):516-518.

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