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In this thesis, I aim to motivate a particular philosophy of mathematics characterised by the following three claims. First, mathematical sentences are generally speaking false because mathematical objects do not exist. Second, people typically use mathematical sentences to comm…

In this study, I inquire into James Robert Brown’s account of thought experiments by evaluating its central ontological and epistemological claims comparing to some prominent figures of modem Platonism, namely, Frege, Russell, Godel, and Quine. In regard to the history of modem …

This dissertation assesses the English revival of the metaphysical Platonic doctrine of the soul’s preexistence against the backdrop of the philosophical, cultural, and religious changes that defined seventeenth-century intellectual life. The reemerged doctrine of preexistence w…