Thomas Aquinas and Some Thomists on the Nature of Mathematics
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Thomas Aquinas and Some Thomists on the Nature of Mathematics
Original language description
The authors explicate Aquinas’s conception of mathematics. They show that in his work the Aristotelian conception is prevalent, according to which this discipline is -together with physics and metaphysics - a theoretical science, whose subject is the study of real quantity and its necessary properties. But, alongside this dominant and prevalent conception, Aquinas’s work contains a number of indications that cast doubt. These sparse and rather marginal reflections lead the authors to conclude that Aquinas’s texts contain a “constructivist” conception of mathematics in rudimentary form. According to this approach, mathematics is not a theoretical science examining real quantity but, rather, a special kind of “art” by means of which mathematical objects are “created”. From a constructivist point of view the authors then attempt to formulate a conception of mathematics that would accord with the basic Aristotelian assumptions of Aquinas’s thought.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-05838S" target="_blank" >GA18-05838S: The Metaphysics of Relations in Second Scholasticism</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Review of Metaphysics
ISSN
0034-6632
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Volume of the periodical
73
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
715-740
UT code for WoS article
000541652400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85095980641