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The authors show that Maddy`s exegesis of the later Wittgenstein`s philosophy of mathematics (Maddy, 1993) fails to capture such practice-based differences, and hence is not useful for the main aim, namely, to build a demarcation between pure mathematics and applied mathematics. The authors acknowledge a sociological division between pure mathematics and applied mathematics communities based on putatively extra-mathematical factors: there are different prizes, journals, chairs, departments, and so forth. The authors analyze their uses of mathematics to understand what is meant when one talks about applied mathematics or pure mathematics . . .
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