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There appear to be two kinds of theories on the nature of numbers, distinguished by the way they interpret their results.
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The paper was written for a graduate seminar in the mid 1970s, devoted to the philosophical issues addressed in Benacerraf (1965). Benacerraf spent 1979–1980 at the Palo Alto Center for the Behavioral Sciences, where he wrote his Skolem paper (Benacerraf 1985). Although it is uneasy to date the typescript with precision, from what Benacerraf recollects, the paper must have been written before his stay in Palo Alto.
Minor revisions of style have been made by Paul Benacerraf in 2015. Editor’s note.
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Benacerraf, P. (2016). Comments on Reduction (Lecture in a Graduate Seminar ~1975). In: Pataut, F. (eds) Truth, Objects, Infinity. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45980-6_13
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