What Finitism Could Not Be

 In his paper "Finitism" (1981), W.W. Tait maintains that the chief difficulty for everyone who wishes to understand Hilbert's conception of finitist mathematics is this: to specify the sense of the provability of general statements about the natural numbers without presupposing infi...

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Main Authors: Matthias Schirn, Karl-Georg Niebergall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2019-01-01
Series:Crítica
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Online Access:https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/1004
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