The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is an argument in the philosophy of mathematics for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as...

In philosophy of mathematics, Putnam and W. V. O. Quine developed the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, an argument for the reality of mathematical...

mathematics, he and his Harvard colleague Hilary Putnam developed the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, an argument for the reality of mathematical entities...

logic minimization Duhem–Quine thesis or Duhem–Quine problem, in philosophy of science Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, in the philosophy of mathematics...

because they are indispensable to scientific explanations of empirical phenomena. An altered form of the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, it differs...

ISSN 2153-3393. Liggins, David (2008). "Quine, Putnam, and the 'Quine-Putnam' Indispensability Argument". Erkenntnis. 68 (1): 113–127. doi:10.1007/s10670-007-9081-y...

to decide between competing theories. For example, the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument defends mathematical Platonism, asserting that numbers exist...

mathematics including various forms of mathematical realism, the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, mathematical fictionalism, mathematical explanation, the...

Science: Indispensability and Ontology is a 2012 book on the philosophy of mathematics by Sorin Bangu. It argues for an improved form of indispensability argument...

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The Indispensability of Mathematics is a 2001 book by Mark Colyvan in which he examines the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument in the philosophy of...

each have differing opinions on which is more correct. Quine-Putnam indispensability is an argument for the existence of mathematical objects based on their...

mathematics is dispensable to science in opposition to the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument. Much of his current work is in semantic paradoxes. In 2008...

has made important contributions to the debate over the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, where he argues for a "weaseling" approach to mathematical...

introduces Takiff algebras. The Quine–Putnam indispensability argument is first presented explicitly, by Hilary Putnam in his book Philosophy of Logic...

perceive mathematical objects directly. Quine and Putnam argued for platonism with the indispensability argument. Crispin Wright, along with Bob Hale, led...

formulated by W. V. O. Quine and Hilary Putnam, is primarily supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable to all empirical sciences...

discussion has a connection to the Carnap–Quine argument over analytic and synthetic objects. Although Quine refers to 'ontological commitment' in this...

This argument by Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam says (in Putnam's shorter words), ... quantification over mathematical entities is indispensable for science ...

W.V. Quine (1960) and Churchland (1981) Realism, advocated by Jerry Fodor (1975), as well as Burge, Dretske, Kripke, and the early Hilary Putnam those...

criticizing empiricists and pragmatists who dismiss it (such as W. V. O. Quine and Richard Rorty). In 1980, in his essay Externalist theories of empirical...

thesis. In addition, a rationalist can choose to adopt the claim of Indispensability of Reason and or the claim of Superiority of Reason, although one can...

share all the same properties. indispensability argument An argument suggesting that if a mathematical entity is indispensable to our best scientific theories...

was saying. In 1954 W. V. O. Quine claimed to prove the reducibility of larger predicates to dyadic predicates, in Quine, W.V.O., "Reduction to a Dyadic...

Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism, has been described as a "brilliant and highly stimulating book," "a truly indispensable book," which...

Descartes offers proofs of a benevolent God (the trademark argument and the ontological argument respectively). Descartes has faith in the account of reality...

positivism, the followers of which mistook his aims for their own. The Quine–Duhem thesis argues that it is impossible to test a single hypothesis on...

in his Conjectures and Refutations. W. V. O. Quine and Pierre Duhem went even further. The Duhem–Quine thesis states that it is impossible to experimentally...

Willard Van Orman Quine. He had decided to transfer to Harvard after reading Quine's From a Logical Point of View and, thinking that Quine was wrong about...

Retrieved 10 June 2023. Decock, Lieven (2002). "Quine's Weak and Strong Indispensability Argument". Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 33 (2):...