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(2009) Synthese 170 (3).
The paper is concerned with the bad company problem as an instance of a more general difficulty in the philosophy of mathematics. The paper focuses on the prospects of stability as a necessary condition on acceptability. However, the conclusion of the paper is largely negative. As a solution to the bad company problem, stability would undermine the prospects of a neo-Fregean foundation for set theory, and, as a solution to the more general difficulty, it would impose an unreasonable constraint on mathematical practice.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9266-6
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Uzquiano, G. (2009). Bad company generalized. Synthese 170 (3), pp. 331-347.
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