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'Abstract Objects: a Case Study', 'The Metaphysics of Modality' and 'Mathematical Truth'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism
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Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan]
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The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism
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Mathematics is both necessary and a priori because it really consists of logical truths [Yablo]
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 9. Fictional Mathematics
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Putting numbers in quantifiable position (rather than many quantifiers) makes expression easier [Yablo]
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