Van Inwagen and the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument

Erkenntnis

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 439-453

  Stokes, Mitchell O ^a  

^a New St Andrews College   (United States)

Author keywords

Indispensability; Mathematics; Meta ontology; Ontology; Properties; Putnam; Quine; Van Inwagen

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148871629     PISSN: 01650106     EISSN: 15728420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-007-9052-3     Document Type: Article

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