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- Author: Penelope Maddy
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0199671486
- ISBN-13: 9780199671489
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. For nearly a century, the axioms of set theory have played this role, so the question of how these axioms are properly judged takes on a central importance. Approaching the question from a broadly naturalistic or second-philosophical point of view, Defending the Axioms isolates the appropriate methods for such evaluations and investigates the ontological and epistemological backdrop that makes them appropriate. In the end, a new account of the objectivity of mathematics emerges, one refreshingly free of metaphysical commitments.
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- Author: Penelope Maddy
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN-10: 0199671486
- ISBN-13: 9780199671489
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere, from some fundamental assumptions. For nearly a century, the axioms of set theory have played this role, so the question of how these axioms are properly judged takes on a central importance. Approaching the question from a broadly naturalistic or second-philosophical point of view, Defending the Axioms isolates the appropriate methods for such evaluations and investigates the ontological and epistemological backdrop that makes them appropriate. In the end, a new account of the objectivity of mathematics emerges, one refreshingly free of metaphysical commitments.
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