8vo. [7], viii-xiii, [1], 1-130 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. An attractive copy of Field's first book, a defense of nominalism with respect to mathematical entities. Field argues that speaking as though mathematical entities (numbers, sets, etc.) exist is useful in scientific discourse, but ultimately we should deny the existence of such entities (contra the Quine-Putnam indispensibility argument according to which we have ontological commitment to the existence of such entities because they are required by our best scientific theories). A touch of rubbing to the jacket. Seller Inventory # 000012261

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Title: Science Without Numbers; A Defence of ...

Publisher: Basil Blackwell (1980), Oxford

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First edition.

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