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(2018) Hilary Putnam on logic and mathematics, Dordrecht, Springer.

Putnam on mathematics as modal logic

Øystein Linnebo

pp. 249-267

Two uses of modal logic to explicate mathematics—due primarily to Hilary Putnam and Charles Parsons—are compared and contrasted. The approaches differ both technically and concerning ontology. Some reasons to push the former approach in the direction of the latter are articulated and discussed.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96274-0_14

Full citation:

Linnebo, Ø. (2018)., Putnam on mathematics as modal logic, in G. Hellman & R. T. Cook (eds.), Hilary Putnam on logic and mathematics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 249-267.

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