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• Plato's problem

  

  Through the considerations of themes in the philosophy of language, ontology, and the philosophy of science, the book aims at offering an historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, approached through the lenses of its most fundamental problempalgrave macmillan paperback with a protective plastic cover around it, is in excellent conditionthe title page and publishing information page have been torn out from the beginning of the booksee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit discusses the answers given by aristotle, proclus and kant, through frege's and russell's versions of logicism, hilbert's formalism, gödel's platonism, up to the the current debate on benacerraf's dilemma and the indispensability argumentoxfam books & music totnes what is mathematics about? and if it is about some sort of mathematical reality, how can we have access to it? this is the problem raised by plato, which still today is the subject of lively philosophical disputesno internal marks and good bindingthis book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary treatment

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