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Allan Tarp

philosophy of mathematics education

2016

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In mathematics and its education, the difference between essence and existence is seldom discussed although central to existentialist thinking. So we can ask: What will an existentialist mathematics education look like? Thus we close the door to the library with today’s self-referring mathematics and go outside to rebuild mathematics from its roots, the physical fact Many. Likewise, we can ask if mathematics is learned by exposure to inside essence claims or to the outside existence rooting it.