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WorksheetsPLATONISM
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
His Platonistic view was more sophisticated than that of the mathematician in the street.
Maddy
Godel
Quine
Parsons
He held that there is a strong parallelism between plausible theories of mathematical objects and concepts on the one hand.
Maddy
Godel
Quine
Parsons
In his view, we have compelling intrinsic evidence for the truth of these axioms
Maddy
Godel
Quine
Parsons
Do not exist in space and time.
mathematical objects
mathematical concepts
mathematical views
Quine suggested a different philosophical methodology instead, which has become known as (a) .
It is not at all obvious how we could express them without using mathematical vocabulary. This line of argumentation is called ___.
indispensability argument
confirmational holism
continuum hypothesis
In his philosophy, the natural sciences are the ultimate arbiters concerning mathematical existence and mathematical truth.
Maddy
Godel
Quine
Parsons
He objects the philosophy of Quine, that this picture makes the obviousness of elementary mathematics somewhat mysterious.
Maddy
Godel
Quine
Parsons
The maxim is instigation for set theory to provide a single system in which all mathematical objects and structures of mathematics can be instantiated or modeled.
maximize
axioms
unify
theorems
The maxim means that set theory should adopt set theoretic principles that are as powerful and mathematically fruitful as possible.
maximize
axioms
unify
theorems
