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    Challenges→The notion of explanatory power of mathematics in science has no ontological import and cannot be used in the enhanced indispensability argument.

    Alternative mathematical explanations of the same scientific phenomenon exist, appealing to different mathematical entities.

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    One of the aspects of the enhanced indispensability argument that has generated much attention is that the argument seems to presuppose a form of inference to the best explanation. An inference to the best explanation licenses, when one is presented with several alternative explanations of the same phenomenon, the acceptance as true of the best among such explanations. In addition to raising the crucial issue of determining whether a certain argument is a mathematical explanation of a scientific

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