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101The Applicability of MathematicsInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.Depending on how it is clarified, the applicability of mathematics can lie anywhere on a spectrum from the completely trivial to the utterly mysterious. At the one extreme, it is obvious that mathematics is used outside of mathematics in cases which range from everyday calculations like the attempt to balance one s checkbook through the most demanding abstract modeling of subatomic particles. The techniques underlying these applications are perfectly clear to those who have mastered them and the…Read more
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81Bas C. Van Fraassen * Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 62 (3): 677-682. 2011.
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