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Mathematical Structuralism

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 29th Nov 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 5mm
Weight: 147g
ISBN-10: 110845643X
ISBN-13: 9781108456432
Barcode No: 9781108456432
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Synopsis
The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose within mathematics itself. After exposing a number of problems, the Element considers three further perspectives formulated by logicians and philosophers of mathematics: sui generis, treating structures as abstract universals, modal, eliminating structures as objects in favor of freely entertained logical possibilities, and finally, modal-set-theoretic, a sort of synthesis of the set-theoretic and modal perspectives.

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