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Some notes on nominalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Leon Henkin*
Affiliation:
University of Southern California

Extract

In two papers appearing in successive issues of this Journal, Quine and Goodman, impelled by a philosophical standpoint which forswears all traffic in abstract entities, have explored the possibility of reinterpreting the language of classical mathematics so as to give it meaning (consistent with the observed overt pattern of standard usage) in terms of the narrow domain of entities which they recognize. The present paper offers several comments on this program.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1953

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