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2022
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- ARXIV: 2111.00922
- doi: 10.1007/s00283-021-10140-3
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Bounded infinity inassignables incomparables infinitesimals part-whole axiom useful fictions Johann Bernoulli Samuel Clarke 2020 MSC: Primary 01A45Sujets proches
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Mikhail Katz et al., « Two-Track Depictions of Leibniz’s Fictions », HAL-SHS : philosophie, ID : 10.1007/s00283-021-10140-3
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Leibniz described imaginary roots, negatives, and infinitesimals as useful fictions. But did he view such ‘impossible’ numbers as mathematical entities? Alice and Bob take on the labyrinth of the current Leibniz scholarship.