Mathematics and Ingarden's Ontological Aesthetics

This is a translation of Barry Smith, “Matematyka a Ontologiczna Estetyka Ingardena”, Studia Filozoficzne 1 (122):51-56 (1976). In the first part of this article I outline a theory of the mode of existence of mathematical objects using the aesthetic and ontological conceptual apparatus developed by Roman Ingarden in The Controversy over the Existence of the World and The Literary Work of Art . The second part contains an attempt to apply the results obtained beyond mathematics, to thought in general, as well as to art and value theory.