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(1990) Physicalism in mathematics, Dordrecht, Springer.
As a mathematical platonist, I hold that mathematical objects are causally inert and exist independently of us and our mental lives. This obliges me to explain how we can refer to such alien creatures and acquire knowledge and beliefs about them.1 This paper is a piece of that larger project.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1902-0_3
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Resnik, M. D. (1990)., Beliefs about mathematical objects, in A. D. Irvine (ed.), Physicalism in mathematics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 41-71.
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