Reason's nearest kin philosophies of arithmetic from Kant to Carnap

How do we account for the truth of arithmetic? And if it does not depend for its truth on the way the world is, what constrains the world to conform to arithmetic? This text examines the progress made towards answering these questions

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Main Author: Potter, Michael D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2000, c2000
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