Mathematical Discovery and Concept Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10696790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles S Chihara (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Publication date | 1963-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2183054 |
| OpenAlex | W2327414595 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
I T HAS recently been claimed that in the philosophy of mathematics, Platonists, who hold among other things that the mathematician is primarily a discoverer of truths which are in some sense independent of us, stand opposed to constructivists who claim that the activity of the mathematician is essentially one of creating rather than finding.' Now, is the mathematician a discoverer or a creator? Compare
Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 1991 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |