MADDY's first argument for vitality, and practically for the sake of holism, is that it is a practical approach of scientists towards meaningful elements that confirm varying theories from tolerant beliefs to unlimited rejection. MADDY gives detailed examples, for example, of the history of atomic theory from the beginning of the last century.


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Part I - Description of naturalism in mathematics as it emerges from the texts

The definition of naturalism according to Quine

Part B

The denial of actual infinity by the intuitionists

The difficulty raised by the need for the infinity axiom within the project to base mathematics on logic

Hilbert's finitist program as a strategy for dealing with the fundamentality problem of arithmetic

in the bibliography