Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics /
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| Author / Creator: | Floyd, Juliet, 1960- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021 |
| Description: | 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of mathematics, 2514-3808 Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of mathematics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12769837 |
| Summary: | For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. Sentences exhibit differing 'aspects', or dimensions of meaning, projecting mathematical 'realities'. Mathematics is an activity of constructing standpoints on equalities and differences of these. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mathematics (1934-1951) grew from his Early (1912-1921) and Middle (1929-33) philosophies, a dialectical path reconstructed here partly as a response to the limitative results of Gödel and Turing. |
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| Physical Description: | 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781108456302 1108456308 9781108687126 9781108616539 |
| ISSN: | 2514-3808 |
