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Is there just one Zero?
Once i was discussing Zero with my kids, I picked up a pen and asked what it is they said 1 pen, then I kept the pen and showed them empty hand and asked how about now, they said Zero pen, then I ...
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What is the meaning of Principle C'' in Hartry Field's 'Science Without Numbers'?
For Field, the following is 'perfectly obvious', but I would like confirmation that I understand it completely.
Let A be a nominalistically statable assertion.
Let A* be the assertion that results by ...
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Do nominalists predicate everything equivocally?
Do nominalists predicate everything equivocally?
Equivocal predication is when only the name is common between two things, for example: "bark" in tree bark and dog's bark.
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Nominalist views and contradictions
Given a flavor of nominalism which denies that simple sentences and existential quantifiers referring to mathematical objects are literally true (pretense theory, fictionalism, figuralism, etc.), ...
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Can nominalist logicians reject universals but accept universal statements?
I am aware that Nominalism comes in at least two flavors, one in particular is the denial of universals. Under this paradigm of Nominalsim, is it possible for a mathematician or even a logician to be ...
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