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Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? by Ian Hacking

CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014, 290 PP., US $25.19, ISBN: 978-1-107-65815-8

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Montemayor, C. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? by Ian Hacking . Math Intelligencer 38, 85–90 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-015-9605-2

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