Mathematics and reality
Auteur :
Leng, Mary
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199674688
Date de publication :
21 mars 2013
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
420 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.