On the Essence and Identity of Numbers
Taking as premises some intuitions about the essences of natural numbers, pluralities and sets, the paper offers an argument that the natural numbers could not be the “Zermelo numbers”, the “Von Neumann numbers”, the “Kripke numbers”, or the “positions in the ω-structure”, among other things. The ar...
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| Language: | English |
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University of the Basque Country
2015-11-01
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| Series: | THEORIA : an International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/14099 |