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| | Wittgenstein, Education and the Philosophy of Mathematics |
 | | In readings of the new Wittgenstein it is maintained that his philosophy of mathematics was not separate from his philosophy of language and that, against Dummett, there is a unity of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of mathematics with the Philosophical Investigations (see Gerrard, 1996: 171). |
 | | Also in keeping with this new view the emphasis is placed not on any substantive position or doctrine that Wittgenstein held, but rather—in accord with the therapeutic notion of philosophy to which he subscribed—on the fact that Wittgenstein constantly warned against the attempt to construct theories in philosophy (see e.g., Floyd, 1991, 1995). |
 | | Wittgenstein might thus be interpreting as criticizing a range of views in philosophy of mathematics – for example, psychologism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, formalism, conventionalism – but not positively associated with any doctrine or position. |
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