#fictionalism

It’s said that those who have difficulty in understanding mathematical knowledge are dyscalculia—a form of disorder. But this is just absolutely rubbish—I believe. It’s one thing to be able to apply patterns and formulas to figures and letters to obtain results, and it’s another to “know” what, for example, 3 is, and “show” it in existence—as real. 3 as a figure does not exist, its existence is…

Ask Dr. Silverman 12 — Nominally Platonic, Platonically Nominal: Fictionalism, Neo-Meinongianism, and Paraphrase Nominalism

Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Interviewees: Dr. Herb Silverman

Numbering: Issue 3: Mathematics, Counselling Psychology, and More

Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Title: Question Time

Web Domain: http://www.in-sightjournal.com

Individual Publication Date: July 18, 2019

Issue Publication Date: January 1, 2019

Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing

Frequency: Three Times…