Arithmetic and Ontology
Subtitle: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Arithmetic. Edited by Pieranna Garavaso (Poznan Studies 90) (Poznan Studies in Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities)
Contributors: Philip, Hugly (Editor); Charles, Sayward (Editor)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Published: July 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789042020474
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy of mathematics; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics / History; History & Philosophy
First sentence: The arithmetic of the system of natural numbers, set out as a first-order theory, is sometimes called 'elementary number theory', sometimes 'number theory', sometimes 'arithmetic', and sometimes (when developed in terms of the Peano axioms) 'Peano arithmetic'.