Journal article
Bad company generalized.
- Abstract:
- The paper is concerned with the bad company problem as an instance of a more general difficulty in the philosophy of mathematics. The paper focuses on the prospects of stability as a necessary condition on acceptability. However, the conclusion of the paper is largely negative. As a solution to the bad company problem, stability would undermine the prospects of a neo-Fregean foundation for set theory, and, as a solution to the more general difficulty, it would impose an unreasonable constraint on mathematical practice. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Synthese More from this journal
- Volume:
- 170
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 331-347
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:67704
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uuid:d58cb788-b886-4134-9ad3-095db24192a9
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pubs:67704
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67704
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2012-12-19
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- 2009
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