Referential uses of arabic numerals

• Autores: Melisa Vivanco
• Localización: Manuscrito: revista internacional de filosofía, ISSN 0100-6045, Vol. 43, Nº. 4 (out./dez.), 2020, págs. 142-164
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Abstract Is the debate over the existence of numbers unsolvable? Mario Gómez-Torrente presents a novel proposal to unclog the old discussion between the realist and the anti-realist about numbers. In this paper, the strategy is outlined, highlighting its results and showing how they determine the desiderata for a satisfactory theory of the reference of Arabic numerals, which should lead to a satisfactory explanation about numbers. It is argued here that the theory almost achieves its goals, yet it does not capture the relevant association between how a number can be split up and the morphological property of Arabic numerals to be positional. This property seems to play a substantial role in providing a complete theory of Arabic numerals and numbers.