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mathematicalism

noun

Etymology

From mathematical + -ism.

  1. derived from mathēmaticālis
  2. inherited from mathematicalle
  3. suffixed as mathematicalism — “mathematical + ism”

Definitions

  1. The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics…

    The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.

    • And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).

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