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(2018) Signs of signification, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter concentrates on the often formulated question about the ontological status of the concepts of mathematics. As an alternative to philosophical approaches this paper uses arguments from linguistics and semiotics. Through comparing mathematics in school and mathematics at the university we are confronting the question of how to translate between the two of them. The result of such deliberations is that at least the assumption of a Platonistic view on mathematical concepts is not fruitful.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70287-2_7
Full citation:
Kadunz, G. (2018)., A matter of translation, in N. Presmeg, L. Radford, W. Roth & G. Kadunz (eds.), Signs of signification, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 127-138.