Mathematical practice as a guide to ontology: Evaluating Quinean Platonism by its consequences for theory choice

Logique et Analyse

Volumn 45, Issue 179-180, 2002, Pages 235-248

  Leng, Mary ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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