Some Recent Existential Appeals to Mathematical Experience

Some recent work by philosophers of mathematics has been aimed at showing that our knowledge of the existence of at least some mathematical objects and/or sets can be epistemically grounded by appealing to perceptual experience. The sensory capacity that they refer to in doing so is the ability to p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michael J. Shaffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2006-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14509/18025