A Neglected Thomistic Text on the Foundation of Mathematics

Mediaeval Studies 21 (1):185-192 (1959)
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After a survey of disagreements among Thomists on the nature of mathematical abstraction, the author cites Aquinas's text Scriptum super libros Sententiarum, I, d. 2, a.3 (a late text inserted in an older work). It assimilates the objects of mathematics to those of logic, thus admitting a remote foundation in reality but not the direct one of the concepts of the physical sciences.

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Geometrie und Erfahrung: verweiterte Fassung des Festvortrages.Albert Einstein - 1921 - Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Kommission Bei W. De Gruyter.

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