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With whom did Quine develop the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument?

  • John Dewey

  • Hilary Putnam

  • Bertrand Russell

  • Frege Gottlob

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The Quine-Putnam indispensability argument, advanced by Willard Van Orman Quine and Hilary Putnam, posits that if a mathematical entity is indispensable to our best scientific theories, then it must exist. The argument is based on the idea that the success of a scientific theory relies on the existence of the entities it posits. Since our best scientific theories incorporate mathematical concepts, these concepts must be considered real and indispensable.
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