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#benacerraf
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What is Benacerraf’s dilemma, in words a school leaver can follow?
I finished senior high school this year and I'm taking a gap year, which my parents call wasting time. I've been reading about whether numbers are discovered or invented, because my maths teacher always said "we discover mathematics, we don't make it…
Started by Fajar Nugroho4 replies -
Reading group: Benacerraf’s “What Numbers Could Not Be” and “Mathematical Truth”
Paul Benacerraf wrote two short papers that between them set the agenda for half a century of philosophy of mathematics. Both are in the Benacerraf and Putnam anthology Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings, and both are easy to find. Plan, three weeks:…
Started by Derek Hollis5 replies