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Product Description: Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries. The view is used to show that, in order to understand how mathematical systems are applied in science and everyday life, it is not necessary to assume that its theorems either presuppose mathematical objects or are even true...read more
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Hardcover:

9780199267538 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 29, 2004, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Charles Chihara's new book develops a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries.

Paperback:

9780199228072 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 12, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries.

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Product Description: A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198237679 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 24, 1998, cover price $168.00 | About this edition: A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one.

Paperback:

9780199246557 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 13, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one.

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Product Description: Chihara here develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of certain sorts of things. He utilizes this system in the analysis of the nature of mathematics, and discusses many recent works in the philosophy of mathematics from the viewpoint of the constructibility theory developed...read more
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9780198248170 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Chihara here develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of certain sorts of things.

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9780198239758 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 15, 1991, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Chihara here develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of certain sorts of things.

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