Deflating Existential Consequence
A Case for Nominalism
Azzouni, Jody Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515988-2
doi:10.1093/0195159888.003.0003
Jody Azzouni
Continues the argument establishing the indispensability of the application of the truth idiom to applied mathematical doctrine and empirical law. Strategies such as Field’s for circumventing the truth of indispensable mathematics and science are considered: epistemic, semantic, and instrumentalist. Although some theories have implications scientists quarantine and so indicate their noncommitment, such practices won’t support philosophical attempts to establish instrumentalist positions on the truth or falsity of statements about theoretical entities or arithmetical truths about numbers.
Keywords: Field, indispensability, instrumentalism, numbers, quarantining implications of theories, realism, truth,
doi:10.1093/0195159888.003.0003
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I TRUTH AND ONTOLOGY
II APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND ITS POSITS