Pasch’s Empiricism as Methodological Structuralism
Pasch’s Empiricism as Methodological Structuralism
Abstract This chapter presents Pasch’s structuralist methodology within his empiricist philosophy. Two criteria for a minimal version of methodological structuralism are proposed, and it is argued that they are met in Pasch’s work on projective geometry and the foundations of arithmetic, despite the fact that Pasch firmly held an empiricist …