Understanding and Mathematical Fictionalism

In a recent paper in this journal, Mark Balaguer develops and defends a new version of mathematical fictionalism, what he calls 'Hermeneutic non-assertivism', and responds to some recent objections to mathematical fictionalism that were launched by John Burgess and others. In this paper I...

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