A Burgessian Critique of Nominalistic Tendencies in Contemporary Mathematics and its Historiography

Foundations of Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-89

  Katz, Karin Usadi ^a   Katz, Mikhail G ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abraham Robinson; Adequality; Archimedean continuum; Bernoullian continuum; Burgess; Cantor; Cauchy; Completeness; Constructivism; Continuity; Dedekind; Du Bois Reymond; Epsilontics; Errett Bishop; Felix Klein; Fermat Robinson standard part; Infinitesimal; Law of excluded middle; Leibniz o transfer principle; Nominalism; Nominalistic reconstruction; Non Archimedean; Rigor; Simon Stevin; Weierstrass

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857142210     PISSN: 12331821     EISSN: 15728471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10699-011-9223-1     Document Type: Article

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