Quine-Putnam indispensability argument
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after the philosophers Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam.
Proper noun
[edit]the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument
- (philosophy, mathematics) An argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, based on the fact that they are indispensable to the best scientific theories.