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Symbol and number
- 1.0518896 - FLÚ 2021 RIV RO eng J - Journal Article
Klev, Ansten
Symbol and number.
Meta: research in hermeneutics, phenomenology and practical philosophy. Roč. 11, č. 2 (2019), s. 640-658. ISSN 2067-3655
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GJ17-18344Y
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : philosophy of arithmetic * Husserl * meaningful formalism * calculation * mathematical ontology
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Method of publishing: Open access
http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/640-658-klev-meta-2019-no2-rev.pdf
This paper explores the view that numbers are symbolically constituted, that numbers just are meaningful symbols. Such a view is what results if we take the conception of number spelled out by Husserl in the second part of his Philosophy of Arithmetic to be self-standing rather than supported by the conception of numbers as abstracted from sets. It will be argued that this latter conception is problematic in itself and, moreover, that it cannot be regarded as providing a foundation for the former.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0303907
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