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8704 | Structuralists call a mathematical 'object' simply a 'place in a structure' [Friend] |
Full Idea: What the mathematician labels an 'object' in her discipline, is called 'a place in a structure' by the structuralist. | |
From: Michèle Friend (Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics [2007], 4.5) | |
A reaction: This is a strategy for dispersing the idea of an object in the world of thought, parallel to attempts to eliminate them from physical ontology (e.g. Idea 614). |