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(2001) Knowledge, cause, and abstract objects, Dordrecht, Springer.
There is a long tradition of regarding mathematical knowledge as a priori knowledge. But most detailed accounts in this tradition are not overtly platonistic and many are clearly not. In this chapter I examine three recent accounts that explicitly combine the claims that mathematical objects are platonic and that we can know a priori that they exist.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9747-0_10
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Cheyne, C. (2001). Apriorism, in Knowledge, cause, and abstract objects, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 145-155.
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