Intuition and Reasoning in Geometry. Inaugural Academic Lecture held on July 22, 1899. With supplements and notes

Philosophia Scientiae 17 (17-1):15-52 (2013)
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The way in which geometrical knowledge has been obtained has always attracted the attention of philosophers. The fact that there is a science that concerns things outside our thinking and that proceeds inferentially appeared striking, and gave rise to specific theories of experience and space. Nonetheless, the geometrical method has not yet been sufficiently investigated. Philosophers who investigate the theory of knowledge discuss the question of whether geometry is an empirical science, but.

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