caa a22 4500 469102608 CHVBK 20180323133048.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00668396 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00668396 Cornwell Stuart Department of Philosophy, California State University, 5500, San Bernadino aut Counterfactuals and the applications of mathematics [Elektronische Daten] [Stuart Cornwell] Conclusion: It has been argued that the attempt to meet indispensability arguments for realism in mathematics, by appeal to counterfactual statements, presupposes a view of mathematical modality according to which even though mathematical entities do not exist, they might have existed. But I have sought to defend this controversial view of mathematical modality from various objections derived from the fact that the existence or nonexistence of mathematical objects makes no difference to the arrangement of concrete objects. This defense of the controversial view of mathematical modality obviously falls far short of a full endorsement of the counterfactual approach, but I hope my remarks may serve to help keep such an approach a live option. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Philosophical Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 66/1(1992-04-01), 73-87 0031-8116 66:1<73 1992 66 11098 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668396 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668396 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cornwell Stuart Department of Philosophy, California State University, 5500, San Bernadino aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophical Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 66/1(1992-04-01), 73-87 0031-8116 66:1<73 1992 66 11098 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer