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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2018

Pages: 129-143

Series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319962733

Full citation:

John P. Burgess, "Putnam on foundations", in: Hilary Putnam on logic and mathematics, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Putnam has famously offered a sketch of a mathematics without foundations, existing in two equivalent descriptions, set-theoretic and modal-logical. Here his proposal is critically examined, with attention to difficulties surrounding both the modal-logical description itself and especially the notion of equivalence of descriptions.

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2018

Pages: 129-143

Series: Outstanding Contributions to Logic

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319962733

Full citation:

John P. Burgess, "Putnam on foundations", in: Hilary Putnam on logic and mathematics, Berlin, Springer, 2018