Phenomenological Reviews

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Ultima facie interpretive strategies

William Lane Craig

pp. 283-326

Abstract

Three views are expounded which advocate that mathematical sentences need not be read in the prima facie way: Charles Chihara's constructibilism, Geoffrey Hellman's modal structuralism, and Stephen Yablo's figuralism. The first two represent paraphrastic strategies, while the last takes abstract object talk to be figurative language. All three are found to be viable options for the theist as responses to indispensability arguments for Platonism.

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Craig William Lane (2017) God and abstract objects: the coherence of theism: aseity. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 283-326

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55384-9_8

Full citation:

Craig William Lane (2017) Ultima facie interpretive strategies, In: God and abstract objects, Dordrecht, Springer, 283–326.