Survey article. Listening to fictions: A study of fieldian nominalism

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 50 (3):431-455 (1999)
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One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers

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