The "Problem of Mathematical Reference" is a philosophical challenge within the foundations of mathematics that concerns how mathematical terms and symbols can be said to refer to abstract objects or structures, given their apparent lack of causal interaction with the physical world.
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Theory Change and The Indterminacy of Reference
Hartry Field · The Journal of Philosophy · 1973 · 419 citations
Mathematics Applied to Physics
Anne Jeffrey · Physics Bulletin · 1970 · 61 citations
Glenn Kessler · Noûs · 1978 · 45 citations
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Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden
1 h-index
2 publications
226 citations
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
1 h-index
1 publications
16 citations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Germany
1 h-index
1 publications
11 citations
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
1 h-index
2 publications
28 citations
Tufts University
Medford, United States
1 h-index
1 publications
56 citations
University of Padua
Padua, Italy
1 publications
15 citations
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
1 publications
20 citations
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- The Review of Symbolic Logic
1 publications · 11 citations
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- Physics Bulletin
1 publications · 61 citations
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- Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
1 publications · 39 citations
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- Human Studies
1 publications · 14 citations
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- Noûs
1 publications · 45 citations
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