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23 de fev. de 2007 · Perhaps the most important constant in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics, middle and late, is that he consistently maintains that mathematics is our, human invention, and that, indeed, everything in mathematics is invented.
The philosophy of mathematics was one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's central concerns from the beginning of his philosophical career until close to the end: it is one of the issues addressed in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Ludwig Wittgenstein considered his chief contribution to be in the philosophy of mathematics, a topic to which he devoted much of his work between 1929 and 1944.
23 de fev. de 2007 · Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics is undoubtedly the most unknown and under-appreciated part of his philosophical opus.
For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. Sentences exhibit differing 'aspects', or dimensions of meaning, projecting mathematical 'realities'.
- Juliet Floyd
- 2021
An overview of Wittgenstein's views on mathematics after 1929, focusing on his criticism of Platonism and his alternative conception of mathematical rules. The article also discusses his relation to other philosophies of mathematics, such as formalism, conventionalism, and constructivism.
This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: 'how come (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world?'
