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Toward a Hermeneutic Categorical Mathematics or why Category theory does not support mathematical structuralism

Rodin, Andrei (2006) Toward a Hermeneutic Categorical Mathematics or why Category theory does not support mathematical structuralism. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    In this paper I argue that Category theory provides an alternative to Hilbert’s Formal Axiomatic method and doesn't support Mathematical Structuralism.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Keywords: Category theory, Hermeneutics, Mathematics, Structuralism
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics
    Depositing User: Andrei Rodin
    Date Deposited: 30 Aug 2006
    Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 11:14
    Item ID: 2894
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2894

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