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Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist's Philosophy of Mathematics - Hardcover

Bigelow, John

 
9780198249573: Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist's Philosophy of Mathematics
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198249578 ISBN 13: 9780198249573
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

This book casts new light on mathematics through its consideration of metaphysical materialism. The author identifies natural, real and imaginary numbers and sets with specified physical properties and relations.

However sets are construed numbers are not sets. Sets are important simply because they instantiate all the numbers and all the other properties and relations studied in mathematics. Set theory tempts us into misunderstanding the nature of mathematics; Bigelow challenges the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence.

By reconstruing numbers as real, non-linguistic, physical properties or relations, mathematics can be drawn back from its sterile, abstract exile into the midst of the physical world to which we belong.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198249578
ISBN 13 
9780198249573
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
204
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