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A Reply To Heathcote's "On The Exhaustion Of Mathematical Entities By Structures", Teresa Kouri
A Reply To Heathcote's "On The Exhaustion Of Mathematical Entities By Structures", Teresa Kouri
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In this article I respond to Heathcote’s "On the Exhaustion of Mathematical Entities by Structures". I show that his ontic exhaustion issue is not a problem for ante rem structuralists. First, I show that it is unlikely that mathematical objects can occur across structures. Second, I show that the properties that Heathcote suggests are underdetermined by structuralism are not so underdetermined. Finally, I suggest that even if Heathcote’s ontic exhaustion issue if thought of as a problem of reference, the structuralist has a readily available solution.