Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quine-putnam indispensability argument

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: quine-put-nam indis-pens-abil-i-ty ar-gu-ment
IPA

59

Scrabble Score

35

Letters

9

Syllables

16

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, based on the fact that they are indispensable to the best scientific theories.

Etymology

Named after the philosophers Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam.

Inflected Forms

the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument (canonical)

Questions

What does quine-putnam indispensability argument mean?: An argument for the existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and sets, based on the fact that they are indispensable to the best scientific theories.
Where does quine-putnam indispensability argument come from?: Named after the philosophers Willard Quine and Hilary Putnam.

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