Internalism, externalism, and beyond: 19th-century British algebra

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2zbMath0554.01018OpenAlexW1969534422MaRDI QIDQ759735

Helena M. Pycior

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean algebrasymbolical algebraontology of mathematical objectsnominalismGeorge BerkeleyDugald Stewartformal operationsimaginary numbersmeaning of symbolssound reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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