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	author       =	{Colyvan, Mark},
	title        =	{{Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
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	year         =	{2019},
	edition      =	{{S}pring 2019},
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