The varieties of indispensability arguments

DOI10.1007/s11229-015-0977-9zbMath1358.00102OpenAlexW2201393831MaRDI QIDQ516228

Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01249016/file/VarietiesIA%28HAL%29.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

mathematical explanationindispensability argumentsexplanatory indispensabilitymathematical Platonism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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