Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
Download or Read eBook Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics PDF written by Juliet Floyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Juliet Floyd |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2021-08-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781108616539 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1108616534 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics by : Juliet Floyd
Book excerpt: For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. Sentences exhibit differing 'aspects', or dimensions of meaning, projecting mathematical 'realities'. Mathematics is an activity of constructing standpoints on equalities and differences of these. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mathematics (1934–1951) grew from his Early (1912–1921) and Middle (1929–33) philosophies, a dialectical path reconstructed here partly as a response to the limitative results of Gödel and Turing.
