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Philosophy of science

argument that numbers cannot be sets because rival set-theoretic reductions of arithmetic are equally adequate, with nothing to choose between them.

In philosophy of science, Benacerraf's identification problem refers to argument that numbers cannot be sets because rival set-theoretic reductions of arithmetic are equally adequate, with nothing to choose between them. This meaning comes from Benacerraf (1965) in The Philosophical Review.[1]

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  1. Benacerraf, P. (1965). What Numbers Could not Be. The Philosophical Review, 74(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.2307/2183530

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