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This Element addresses the categoricity arguments that have been more effective in historical cases that reflect philosophically on internal mathematical matters than in recent questions of pre-theoretic metaphysics.

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1. Introduction; 2. Dedekind in 'Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?' (1888); 3. Dedekind in 'Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?' (1888); 4. Kreisel in 'Informal rigor and incompleteness proofs' (1967) and 'Two notes on the foundations of set theory'(1969); 5. Parsons in 'The uniqueness of the natural numbers' (1990) and 'Mathematical induction' (2008); 6. Parsons in 'The uniqueness of the natural numbers' (1990) and 'Mathematical induction' (2008); 7. Conclusion; References.

Philosophical Uses of Categoricity Arguments

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    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
    Publication Date: 12/21/2023 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9781009432924, 978-1009432924
    ISBN10: 1009432923
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    Mathematical logic Philosophy of mathematics Set theory

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This Element addresses the categoricity arguments that have been more effective in historical cases that reflect philosophically on internal mathematical matters than in recent questions of pre-theoretic metaphysics.

    Table of Contents
    1. Introduction; 2. Dedekind in 'Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?' (1888); 3. Dedekind in 'Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?' (1888); 4. Kreisel in 'Informal rigor and incompleteness proofs' (1967) and 'Two notes on the foundations of set theory'(1969); 5. Parsons in 'The uniqueness of the natural numbers' (1990) and 'Mathematical induction' (2008); 6. Parsons in 'The uniqueness of the natural numbers' (1990) and 'Mathematical induction' (2008); 7. Conclusion; References.

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