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Pluralism as Modeling and as Confusion

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We consider three levels of pluralism: (1) within mathematics, (2) with regard to philosophy of mathematics, and (3) personal pluralism.

Reprinted with permission from Springer Science. The original version of this article appeared in a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, guest edited byMichele Friend and Mihir Chakraborty.

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Thanks to Vera John-Steiner and to Brendan Larvor, for suggestions for improving this article.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Reuben Hersh

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Hersh, R. (2017). Pluralism as Modeling and as Confusion. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_3

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