Intuitionism and logical tolerance (Q2702734)

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Intuitionism and logical tolerance
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    23 October 2001
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    Grundlagenstreit
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    formalisms without content
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    Carnap's tolerance principle
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    model theory
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    Intuitionism and logical tolerance (English)
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    In this eminently readable note, the author points out that the \textit{Grundlagenstreit} between the classical viewpoint and its intuitionistic rival, both of which maintained that mathematical theorems have content, was to a certain degree mooted (``resolved by telling the protagonists to go away'') by the advent of the model-theoretic perspective during the 1920s and the ensuing study of formalisms without content (``Language or Logic as Calculus''), for which Carnap's tolerance principle is emblematic.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0948.00030].
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