Titlebook: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics; Mathematics as the S James Franklin Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmilla

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Non-Deductive Logic in Mathematics addition to methods special to mathematics such as proof, there ought to be a role for ordinary scientific methods such as experiment, conjecture and the confirmation of theories by observations. Those methods should work in mathematics just as well as in science. Mathematics has extra and more cer

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Stephanie Schiemann,Robert W?stenfeldizations. Aristotle himself described the Platonists arguing that geometry studies perfect lines and circles, which cannot be realized in the physical world and hence must exist in some non-physical realm:

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91079-1er than complex structures, its concern with infinities before small finite structures, its epistemological impasse over how to know about ‘a(chǎn)bstract’ objects – comes from its oscillation between Platonism and nominalism, as if those were the only alternatives. So it is desirable to begin with a brie

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91079-1 physical world, so that mathematics is a science of aspects of the world, as much as biology is. The principal objection to that thesis is, ‘Some of the objects of mathematics are . realized in the physical world, such as large infinite numbers’. It may be that the world is finite, in which case in

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91079-1ticularly necessary since it is much less obvious what the answer is for mathematics than it is for sciences like physics, biology or sociology. It is clear enough what properties of things physics studies – properties such as mass and attraction (even if it is hard to say what they have in common t

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91079-1ct-matter, structure or pattern. We survey the historical development with an eye to philosophically significant examples, then address the crucial philosophical question of characterizing precisely what ‘structure’ is.

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