Mathematics and Reality

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Author	: Mary Leng
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2010-04-22
ISBN-10	: 9780199280797
ISBN-13	: 0199280797
Rating	: 4/5 (97 Downloads)

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Book Synopsis Mathematics and Reality by : Mary Leng

Book excerpt: Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.

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