Deflating Existential Consequence A Case for Nominalism

Name: Deflating Existential Consequence A Case for Nominalism
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ISBN: 9780195159882

ISBN-10: 0195159888

ISBN-13: 9780195159882

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jody Azzouni

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If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstract invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought? Jody Azzouni says no, and he claims that the way to escape such commitments is to accept (as an essential part of scientific doctrine) true statements which are about objects that don't exist in any sense at all. Azzouni illustrates what the metaphysical landscape looks like once we avoid a militant Realism which forces our commitment to anything that our theories quantify over. Escaping metaphysical straitjackets (such as the correspondence theory of truth), while retaining the insight that some truths are about…

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List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.42" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction



Truth and Ontology



Why Empirically Indispensable Mathematical Doctrine and (Some) Scientific Law Must Be Taken as True: Preliminary Considerations



Circumventing Commitment to Truth Despite Empirical Indispensability



Criteria for the Ontological Commitments of Discourse



Criteria for What Exists



Ontological Commitment and the Vernacular: Some Warnings



Applied Mathematics and Its Posits



Posits and the Epistemic Burdens They Bear



Posits and Existence



Applying Mathematics: Two Models



Applied Mathematics and Ontology


Conclusion


References


Index