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Mathematical thought and its objects / Charles Parsons.

By: Parsons, Charles, 1933-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Description: xx, 378 p. ,$95.00 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521452793 (hardback); 0521452791 (hardback).Subject(s): Mathematics -- Philosophy | Object (Philosophy) | LogicDDC classification: 510.1 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Objects and logic -- Structuralism and nominalism -- Modality and structuralism -- A problem about sets -- Intuition -- Numbers as objects -- Intuitive arithmetic and its limits -- Mathematical induction -- Reason.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-363) and index.

Objects and logic -- Structuralism and nominalism -- Modality and structuralism -- A problem about sets -- Intuition -- Numbers as objects -- Intuitive arithmetic and its limits -- Mathematical induction -- Reason.