A naturalist account of the limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics

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The aim of this essay is to propose a conception of mathematics that is fully consonant with naturalism. By that I mean the hypothesis that everything that exists is part of the natural world, which makes up a unitary whole.

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