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- Title
Stalnaker on Mathematical Information.
- Authors
Nuffer, Gerhard
- Abstract
Robert Stalnaker has argued that mathematical information is information about the sentences and expressions of mathematics. I argue that this metalinguistic account is open to a variant of Alonzo Church's translation objection and that Stalnaker's attempt to get around this objection is not successful. If correct, this tells not only against Stalnaker's account of mathematical truths, but against any meta- linguistic account of truths that are both necessary and informative.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS; STALNAKER, Robert; CHURCH, Alonzo; FOUNDATIONS of mathematical analysis; LANGUAGE awareness
- Publication
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0038-4283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.2041-6962.2009.tb00090.x