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Platonism, Metaphor, and Mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Glenn G. Parsons  and
James Robert Brown
Glenn G. Parsons
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
James Robert Brown
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Winter 2004 , pp. 47 - 66
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