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description
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Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2018. Linguistics and reality. In Jan Ceuppens, Hans Smessaert, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck,
and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd, eds., A coat of many colours, Brussels: KU Leuven.
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type
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Essay
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ID
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2018b | 168 | January 15, 2018
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origin
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Contribution to an e-Festschrift for Dany Jaspers. I got interested in the fictionalism/platonism debate after
reading Mary Leng's (2010) Mathematics and reality over the Summer of 2018.
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keywords
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linguistics; philosophy of linguistics; fictionalism; psychological reality; third factor
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summary
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This paper reviews the fictionalism/platonism debate in the philosophy of mathematics, and suggests some consequences for theoretical linguistics.
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