What We Know about Numbers and Propositions and How We Know It

The paper sketches and defends two instances of the strategy Let N’s be whatever they have to be to explain our knowledge of them—one in which N’s are natural numbers and one in which N’s are propositions. The former, which makes heavy use of Hume’s principle and plural quantification, grounds our i...

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Published in:	Organon F
Main Author:	Scott Soames
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2020-08-01
Subjects:	arithmetic cognition knowledge natural numbers plural properties plural quantification propositional attitudes propositions representation semantics
Online Access:	https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/08061456orgf.2020.27301.pdf