Where Do the Cardinal Numbers Come From?

Synthese 84 (3):347-407 (1990)
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Abstract

This paper presents a model-theoretic semantics for discourse "about" natural numbers, one that captures what I call "the mathematical-object picture", but avoids what I can "the mathematical-object theory".

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Harold Hodes
Cornell University

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