Assertion: mathematics | /r/HasProperty | indispensable
Facets:
value: for the deflationary nominalist
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: ultimately
type: DEGREE
value: to all empirical sciences
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Contemporary mathematical empiricism, formulated by W. V. O. Quine and Hilary Putnam, is primarily supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable to all empirical sciences, and if we want to believe in the reality of the phenomena described by the sciences, we ought also believe in the reality of those entities required for this description.
text: The third strategy rejects the first premise of the argument, thus bypassing the need to argue for the dispensability of mathematics (in fact, for the deflationary nominalist, mathematics is ultimately indispensable).