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Petrification in Contemporary Set Theory: The Multiverse and the Later Wittgenstein. 当代集合论的僵化：多元宇宙与后来的维特根斯坦。

Kriterion (Salzburg, Austria) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 eCollection Date: 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.1515/krt-2023-0016

José Antonio Pérez-Escobar, Colin Jakob Rittberg, Deniz Sarikaya

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