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#nominalism
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Species are drawn, not discovered: biology has already chosen nominalism
I study kelp forests along the Chilean coast. Within my working life, the species boundaries in some of the kelp groups I study have been argued over and redrawn on the basis of genetic data, and colleagues still disagree about how many…
Started by Ignacio Fuenzalida5 replies278 views -
The indispensability argument is the best case for numbers, and it still does not work
The argument usually called Quine–Putnam goes like this: We should believe in the entities our best scientific theories quantify over. Our best scientific theories quantify over mathematical objects, ineliminably. So we should believe mathematical objects exist. It is the best argument for…
Started by Emeka Nwosu5 replies228 views