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Inquiry
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
Volume 31, 1988 - Issue 1
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Alternative mathematics and the strong programme: Reply to Triplett

Pages 93-101 | Received 30 Oct 1987, Published online: 29 Aug 2008
 

Timm Triplett argues (Inquiry 29 [1986], no. 4) that David Bloor does not succeed in justifying a relativistic interpretation of mathematics. It is objected that Triplett has focused his attention on the wrong chapter of Bloor's Knowledge and Social Imagery, and that the examples which Triplett demands Bloor provide to make the case do appear in the subsequent chapter. Moreover, Bloor has anticipated and refuted Triplett's brief criticism of the examples that make Bloor's case for the relativism of mathematics. Finally, Triplett's own example of a basic mathematical truth can be shown to be socially relative.

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