Quine's Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the Indeterminacy of Reference

Quine's Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the Indeterminacy of Reference

Quine has famously put forward the indispensability argument to force belief in the existence of mathematical objects (such as classes) due to their indispensability to our best theories of the world (Quine 1960). Quine has also advocated the indeterminacy of reference argument, according to which r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Otávio Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2003-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Subjects:
Indispensability argument
indeterminacy of reference
Platonism
Quine
Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14734/13475

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