Concept
Mathematical Platonism
Overview
Mathematical Platonism is the form of realism that suggests that mathematical entities are abstract, have no spatiotemporal or causal properties, and are eternal and unchanging. This is often claimed to be the view most people have of numbers.
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Related ideas
- Philosophical realism
- Paul Benacerraf
- Immanuel Kant
- Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)
- Kurt Gödel
- Law of excluded middle
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
- Number
- Platonism
- Plato
- Theory of forms
- Set theory
- Pythagoreanism
- Abstract object theory
- Naturalism (philosophy)
- Metaphysical naturalism
- Analytic–synthetic distinction
- A priori and a posteriori
- Axiom of choice
- Allegory of the cave
- Edmund Husserl
- Penelope Maddy
- Philip J. Davis
- Reuben Hersh
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.