Bad company generalized |
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Authors: | Gabriel Uzquiano |
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Institution: | (1) Stern School of Business, New York University, Tisch 7-20, 44 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, USA;(2) Harvard University, Baker Library 453, Soldier’s Field Road, Boston, MA 02163, USA |
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Abstract: | The paper is concerned with the bad company problem as an instance of a more general difficulty in the philosophy of mathematics.
The paper focuses on the prospects of stability as a necessary condition on acceptability. However, the conclusion of the
paper is largely negative. As a solution to the bad company problem, stability would undermine the prospects of a neo-Fregean
foundation for set theory, and, as a solution to the more general difficulty, it would impose an unreasonable constraint on
mathematical practice. |
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