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  • 8 - Generic Systems and Mathematical Structuralism

  • Leon Horsten, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects
    Published online:
    24 May 2019
    Print publication:
    13 June 2019, pp 143-161

  • Summary

    Eliminative and non-eliminative forms of mathematical structuralism contain insights that every decent philosophical account of mathematicalstructures has to accommodate. So the challenge is to incorporate the insights in the nature of structure that have been acquired by eliminative and non-eliminative mathematical structuralists and to do better where existing accounts have fallen short. It is in this spirit that I try to connect my account of mathematical structure with elements of leading versions of mathematical structuralism.