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Science without Numbers by Hartry Field, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Science without Numbers by Hartry Field, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Science without Numbers by Hartry Field, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Science without Numbers by Hartry Field, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Science Without Numbers caused a stir in philosophy on its original publication in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the ontology of mathematics and science. Hartry Field argues that we can explain the utility of mathematics without assuming it true. Part of the argument is that goodmathematics has a special feature ("conservativeness") that allows it to be applied to "nominalistic" claims (roughly, those neutral to the existence of mathematical entities) in a way that generates nominalistic consequences more easily without generating any new ones. Field goes on to argue thatwe can axiomatize physical theories using nominalistic claims only, and that in fact this has advantages over the usual axiomatizations that are independent of nominalism. There has been much debate about the book since it first appeared. It is now reissued in a revised contains a substantial newpreface giving the author's current views on the original book and the issues that were raised in the subsequent discussion of it. | Science without Numbers by Hartry Field, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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