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Intensional mathematics
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ISBN: 0444876324 9780444876324 9781435686977 1435686977 1281716464 9786611716462 9780080880022 0080880045 Year: 1985 Volume: 113 Publisher: Amsterdam North-Holland

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``Platonism and intuitionism are rival philosophies of Mathematics, the former holding that the subject matter of mathematics consists of abstract objects whose existence is independent of the mathematician, the latter that the subject matter consists of mental construction... both views are implicitly opposed to materialistic accounts of mathematics which take the subject matter of mathematics to consist (in a direct way) of material objects...'' FROM THE INTRODUCTIONAmong the aims of this book are: - The discussion of some important philosophical issues using the precision

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