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Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage EnthusiasmsA Minimalist Foundation at Work

Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage Enthusiasms: A Minimalist Foundation at Work [What is the nature of mathematics? The different answers given to this perennial question can be gathered from the different theories which have been put forward as foundations of mathematics. In the common contemporary vision, the role of foundations is to provide safe grounds a posteriori for the activity of mathematicians, which on the whole is taken as a matter of fact. This is usually achieved by reducing all concepts of mathematics to that of set, and by postulating sets to form a fixed universe, which exists by itself and is unaffected by any human activity. Thus it is a static vision.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Vintage EnthusiasmsA Minimalist Foundation at Work

Part of the The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 75)
Editors: DeVidi, David; Hallett, Michael; Clarke, Peter

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-94-007-0213-4
Pages
69 –96
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-0214-1_4
Publisher site
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Abstract

[What is the nature of mathematics? The different answers given to this perennial question can be gathered from the different theories which have been put forward as foundations of mathematics. In the common contemporary vision, the role of foundations is to provide safe grounds a posteriori for the activity of mathematicians, which on the whole is taken as a matter of fact. This is usually achieved by reducing all concepts of mathematics to that of set, and by postulating sets to form a fixed universe, which exists by itself and is unaffected by any human activity. Thus it is a static vision.]

Published: Jan 27, 2011

Keywords: Open Subset; Closed Subset; Classical Logic; Type Theory; Intuitionistic Logic

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