Does Science Reduce the World to a Mathematical Entity?

der 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2:1074-1081 (1983)
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As the answer to the question clearly depends on its precise meaning, the paper aims at presenting some explications of the problem and the conclusions entailed by each of them. If mathematical entity is taken in a narrow sense, the answer turns out to be negative; on some broader conceptions, it is positive. Though irreducible to a numerical structure, a scientific domain is identifiable with some set theoretic entity.

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