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Richard Sylvan

New Zealand philosopher
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  • Gottlob Frege
    philosophy of mathematics
    / Nominalism

    …by the New Zealand philosopher Richard Sylvan, but related views were held much earlier by the German philosophers Rudolf Carnap and Carl Gustav Hempel and the British philosopher Sir Alfred Ayer. Views along these lines have been endorsed by Graham Priest of England, Jody Azzouni of the United States, and…

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    …by the New Zealand philosopher Richard Sylvan, but related views were held much earlier by the German philosophers Rudolf Carnap and Carl Gustav Hempel and the British philosopher Sir Alfred Ayer. Views along these lines have been endorsed by Graham Priest of England, Jody Azzouni of the United States, and…

    Read More