Benacerraf's identification problem
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Benacerraf's identification problem
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In the philosophy of mathematics, Benacerraf's identification problem is a philosophical argument developed by Paul Benacerraf against set-theoretic Platonism and published in 1965 in an article entitled "What Numbers Could Not Be". Historically, the work became a significant catalyst in motivating the development of mathematical structuralism. The identification problem argues that there exists a fundamental problem in reducing natural numbers to pure sets. Since there exists an infinite number
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Argument in philosophy of mathematics
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2014-03-08T19:39:41Z
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2024-09-09T14:59:37Z
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