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Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Hague :
Martnus Nijhoff,
1976.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Wittgenstein As Critic.- A. Platonism.- B. Intuitionism.- C. Formalism.- D. Empiricism.- E. Conventionalism.- F. Summary and Projection
- II. Wittgenstein as Creator.- A. Wittgenstein's Behavioral Theory of Inference.- 1. Mathematics as a Technique.- 2. Inference and Behavior.- 3. Agreement.- 4. Convention and Compulsion.- B. The Role of Mathematics.- 1. Mathematics and Empirical Language.- 2. Concept-Formation.- 3. Concept-Formation and Compulsion.- 4. Wittgenstein's Earlier Theory.- C. The theory as explanatory
- III. Critics of Wittgenstein.- A. Wittgenstein and Strict Finitism.- 1. Wittgenstein and Non-finitary Mathematics.- 2. Wittgenstein and Meta-mathematics.- 3. Wittgenstein and Elementary Mathematics.- B. Wittgenstein and Objectivity.- C. Wittgenstein's Contributions.- Selected Bibliography.