02857nam 2200649Ia 450 991096384810332120251117062730.00-19-170155-60-19-156832-51-281-99876-19786611998769(CKB)1000000000765763(EBL)431097(OCoLC)436041382(SSID)ssj0000313418(PQKBManifestationID)11264415(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313418(PQKBWorkID)10358099(PQKB)11604902(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021527(MiAaPQ)EBC431097(Au-PeEL)EBL431097(CaPaEBR)ebr10329653(CaONFJC)MIL199876(MiAaPQ)EBC7039119(Au-PeEL)EBL7039119(OCoLC)1336401669(EXLCZ)99100000000076576319980316d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWittgenstein, finitism, and the foundations of mathematics /Mathieu Marion1st ed.Oxford Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (281 p.)Oxford philosophical monographsDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-823516-X 0-19-955047-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and index.Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Wittgenstein's Anti-Platonism; 2. Logicism without Classes; 3. Arbitrary Functions; 4. Quantification and Finitism; 5. From Truth-Functional Logic to a Logic of Equations; 6. Philosophy and Logical Foundations; 7. The Continuum; 8. Strict Finitism; References; IndexMathieu Marion traces the development of Wittgenstein's thinking from the 1920's through to the 1950's, in the context of the mathematical and philosophical work of the time, making sense of ideas that have often been misunderstood. He shows that study of Wittgenstein's writings on mathematics is essential to a proper understanding of his philosophy. - ;Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. This area of his work has frequently been undervalued by Wittgenstein specialists and by philosophers of mathematics alike; but the surprisiOxford philosophical monographs.MathematicsPhilosophyMathematicsPhilosophy.510/.1Marion Mathieu1962-53865MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963848103321Wittgenstein, finitism, and the foundations of mathematics4462790UNINA