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The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology (Hardcover): S. Bangu

The Applicability of Mathematics in Science: Indispensability and Ontology (Hardcover)

S. Bangu

Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science

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Do electrons and genes exist? If inclined to answer 'yes', let's ask a harder question: do numbers exist? This book argues that the answer should be, again, affirmative. It elaborates a philosophical position according to which all, and only, entities truly indispensable to the formulation of modern scientific theories should be recognized as existent, regardless of how we might be initially tempted to categorize them - as concrete-physical or abstract-mathematical. In addition to explicating the subtleties of the positive reasons supporting this form of realism, the book clarifies and rebuts a variety of objections raised against this position.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Release date: October 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: S. Bangu
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-28520-0
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Philosophy of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
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LSN: 0-230-28520-1
Barcode: 9780230285200

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