TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maddy,Penelope
TI  - Defending the axioms: on the philosophical foundations of set theory 
SN  - 9780191725395 (ebook) :
AV  - QA248 
U1  - 511.322 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Axiomatic set theory
KW  - Philosophy
N2  - Mathematics depends on proofs, and proofs must begin somewhere from some fundamental assumptions. The axioms of set theory have long played this role, so the question of how they are properly judged is important. Maddy discusses the appropriate methods for such evaluations and the philosophical backdrop that makes them appropriate
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199596188.001.0001
ER  -