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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Main Author: Weir, Alan
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199541492
0199541493
9780191594915
0191594911