Before revision: Inspired both by the arguments against confirmational holism and Melia's argument that we can suspend belief in mathematics if it does not play a genuinely explanatory role in science, Colyvan and Baker have defended an explanatory version of the argument.
After revision: indispensabilityInspired both by the arguments against confirmational holism and Melia's argument that we can suspend belief in mathematics if it does not play a genuinely explanatory role in science, Colyvan and Baker have defended an explanatory version of the argument.