Philosophy of Mathematics
Subtitle: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780631218692
First sentence: and science as sharing in the task of explaining facts, phenomena, or relations in their respective spheres. Steiner maintains that logicians and mathematicians standardly give explanations, and that mathematicians sometimes self-consciously distinguish between demonstrative and explanatory proofs.