Structuralism Reconsidered

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  MacBride, Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identity; Identity of indiscernibles; Incompleteness; Mathematical objects; Positions; Resnik; Shapiro; Structuralism; Structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920008312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195148770.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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