Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions
Founding Mathematics on Semantic Conventions
English | 2021 | ISBN: 303088533X | 267 Pages | PDF EPUB | 4 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 303088533X | 267 Pages | PDF EPUB | 4 MB
This book presents a new nominalistic philosophy of mathematics: semantic conventionalism. Its central thesis is that mathematics should be founded on the human ability to create language – and specifically, the ability to institute conventions for the truth conditions of sentences.