Comments on ``Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation

DOI10.1007/s11229-015-0706-4zbMath1358.00103OpenAlexW2018082158MaRDI QIDQ516217

Fabrice Pataut

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0706-4

zbMATH Keywords

Platonismproofsinference to the best explanationontological commitmentindispensability argumentsnominalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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