Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

by Juliet Floyd

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108456308
• ISBN13: 9781108456302
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"