Who did Putnam work together with on the reality of mathematical entities?
W. V. O. Quine
Bertrand Russell
John Searle
David Chalmers
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Putnam worked with W. V. O. Quine on the reality of mathematical entities. Quine believed that mathematics is a branch of logic and that there are no mathematical objects. Putnam disagreed, arguing that mathematics is a language that describes real mathematical objects.
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