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Media type:
Book;
Thesis
Title:
Nominalism and constructivism in seventeenth-century mathematical philosophy
Contains:
Introduction: mathematization and the language of nature -- Realists and nominalists : language and mathematics before the scientific revolution -- Ontology recapitulates epistemology : Gassendi, epicurean atomism, and nominalism -- British empiricism, nominalism, and constructivism -- Three mathematicians : constructivist epistemology and the new mathematical methods -- Conclusion: mathematization and the nature of language
University thesis:
Teilw. zugl.: Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota, Diss., 2002 u.d.T.: Sepkoski, David: Numbers and things
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the 17th century.--