This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Indispensability arguments occupy a prominent role in discussions of mathematical realism. While different versions of these arguments are ...

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Philosophy of Science, Vol. 85, No. 5 (December 2018), pp. 793-805 (13 pages) The ontic conception of explanation, according to which explanations are full-bodied things in the world, is fundamentally ...