2016
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1054-8
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Accessibility of reformulated mathematical content

Abstract: I challenge a claim that seems to be made when nominalists offer reformulations of the content of mathematical beliefs, namely that these reformulations are accessible to everyone. By doing so, I argue that these theories cannot account for the mathematical knowledge that ordinary people have. In the first part of the paper I look at reformulations that employ the concept of proof, such as those of Mary Leng and Ottavio Bueno. I argue that ordinary people don't have many beliefs about proofs, and that they are… Show more

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