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DESCRIPTION: I describe two approaches to the problem of devising a view of
  mathematics that will account for applications of mathematics within a nom
 inalistic framework.  The first\, Hartry Field’s fictionalist view of mathe
 matics\, holds that the theorems of mathematics are\, like sentences in wor
 ks of fiction\, not true.  Applications of mathematics are explained in ter
 ms of a property that good mathematical systems are supposed to possess\, n
 amely that of being “conservative” over nominalistic theories.  My own acco
 unt of mathematics takes a very different approach which is devised to expl
 ain important features of pure mathematics and the history of the calculus 
 that Field’s view does not explain.\n\n
SUMMARY:Logic Colloquium\nCharles Chihara\nTwo Nominalistic Views of Mathem
 atics
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