mathematicalism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]mathematical + -ism
Noun
[edit]mathematicalism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.
- 2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies[1]:
- 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).