Philosophy of Mathematics
Subtitle: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: October 2001
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9781405109819
Subjects: Philosophy
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.