Truth through proof : a formalist foundation for mathematics /
'Truth Through Proof' defends an anti-platonist philosophy of mathematics derived from game formalism. Weir develops a more satisfactory successor to game formalism utilising anaccepted, broadly neo-Fregean framework, in which the proposition expressed by an utterance is a function of both...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Truth Through Proof' defends an anti-platonist philosophy of mathematics derived from game formalism. Weir develops a more satisfactory successor to game formalism utilising anaccepted, broadly neo-Fregean framework, in which the proposition expressed by an utterance is a function of both sense and background circumstance. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199541492 0199541493 9780191594915 0191594911 |