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050	0	0	_aQA8.4 _b.P366 2008
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100	1		_aParsons, Charles, _d1933- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMathematical thought and its objects / _cCharles Parsons.
246	3		_aMathematical Thought & its Objects
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2008.
300			_a1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aObjects and logic -- Structuralism and nominalism -- Modality and structuralism -- A problem about sets -- Intuition -- Numbers as objects -- Intuitive arithmetic and its limits -- Mathematical induction -- Reason.
520			_aCharles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects. He introduces the central mathematical notion of structure and defends a version of the structuralist view of mathematical objects, according to which their existence is relative to a structure and they have no more of a 'nature' than that confers on them. Parsons also analyzes the concept of intuition and presents a conception of it distantly inspired by that of Kant, which describes a basic kind of access to abstract objects and an element of a first conception of the infinite.
650		0	_aMathematics _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aObject (Philosophy)
650		0	_aLogic.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521452793
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498534
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