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Mathematical Philosophy, a Study of Fate and Freedom. [2] 1927. Mole Philosophy and Other Essays. 1932. The Meaning of Mathematics. 1935. A glance at some of the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce. 1935. Mathematics and the Question of the Cosmic Mind, with Other Essays. 1935. Three great synonyms: Relation, transformation, function. 1936 ...
Philosophy of mathematics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of mathematics and its relationship to other areas of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Central questions posed include whether or not mathematical objects are purely abstract entities or are in some way concrete, and in what the relationship ...
The role of mathematics in Western philosophy has grown and expanded from Pythagoras onwards. It is clear that numbers held a particular importance for the Pythagorean school , although it was the later work of Plato that attracts the label of mathematicism from modern philosophers.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics is a 2012 textbook on the philosophy of mathematics by Mark Colyvan. It has a focus on issues in contemporary philosophy , such as the mathematical realism – anti-realism debate and the philosophical significance of mathematical practice, and largely skips over historical debates.
This is a list of axioms as that term is understood in mathematics. In epistemology, the word axiom is understood differently; see axiom and self-evidence. Individual axioms are almost always part of a larger axiomatic system.
Mayberry's philosophy rejects the Platonic tradition, which holds mathematics to be a transcendental science concerned with discovering truths about immaterial, but intelligible, objective entities, as metaphysically conceited. This stance sets him apart from what probably is the “silent majority” view among practising mathematicians.
The fundamental distinguishing characteristic of intuitionism is its interpretation of what it means for a mathematical statement to be true. In Brouwer's original intuitionism, the truth of a mathematical statement is a subjective claim: a mathematical statement corresponds to a mental construction, and a mathematician can assert the truth of a statement only by verifying the validity of that ...
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