Three Doctrines of the Nature of Mathematics

Bulletin of the Section of Logic 46 (1/2) (2017)
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In this note I am reflecting on interrelations between three concepts of truth: that employed by Hilbert arguing his formalist view on the nature of mathematics, Freges idea of truth supported by mathematical intuition, and known as Aristotelian correspondence idea of truth concerning any propositions not merely mathematical.

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