Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 25, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195143980
First sentence: In this chapter, I will discuss Benacerraf's epistemological argument against platonism, which holds, in a nutshell, that platonism cannot be right because it precludes the possibility of mathematical knowledge.