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Full Idea
Benacerraf argues that realists about mathematical objects have a nice normal semantic but no epistemology, and anti-realists have a good epistemology but an unorthodox semantics.
Gist of Idea
Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics
Source
report of Paul Benacerraf (Mathematical Truth [1973]) by Mark Colyvan - Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics 1.2
Book Ref
Colyvan,Mark: 'An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics' [CUP 2012], p.8
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