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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: Routledge
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Pages: 461
Pages: 461
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. In this book, Penelope Mad
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Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-22 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
Mary Leng offers a defense of mathematical fictionalism, according to which we have no reason to believe that there are any mathematical objects. Perhaps the mo
Language: en
Pages: 412
Pages: 412
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