Solving the proper problem : Wittgenstein, fictionalism and the applicability of mathematics
This thesis proposes a solution to the problem motivating Albert Einstein's question, 'How can it be that mathematics … is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?'; the problem of mathematical applicability. It considers Mark Steiner‘s anthropocentric non-naturalist attitu...
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University of York
2012
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557216 |