Avicenna on the Nature of Mathematical Objects

Dialogue 55 (3):511-536 (2016)
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Some authors have proposed that Avicenna considers mathematical objects, i.e., geometric shapes and numbers, to be mental existents completely separated from matter. In this paper, I will show that this description, though not completely wrong, is misleading. Avicenna endorses, I will argue, some sort of literalism, potentialism, and finitism.

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Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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