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In this paper, based on a critical analysis of ideas of Frege, Quine and Prior, we show how Lambda Calculus and Hilbert’s Epsilon Calculus are useful to give us a good understanding of Platonic objects.
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Slater, H. The Grammar of Platonism. Log. Univers. 10, 533–541 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-016-0157-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-016-0157-9