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The explanatory indispensability argument [a] is an altered form of the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument in the philosophy of mathematics.It claims that we should believe in mathematical objects such as numbers because they are indispensable to scientific explanations of empirical phenomena.
According to Melia, we only need to believe in mathematics if it is indispensable to science in the right kind of way. In particular, it needs to be indispensable to scientific explanations. [69] But according to Melia, mathematics plays a purely representational role in science, it merely "[makes] more things sayable about concrete objects". [70]
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(Premise 2) Mathematical entities are indispensable to our best scientific theories. ( Conclusion ) We ought to have ontological commitment to mathematical entities This argument resonates with a philosophy in applied mathematics called Naturalism [ 8 ] (or sometimes Predicativism) [ 9 ] which states that the only authoritative standards on ...
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