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Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics: An Essay on Finitism - Synthese Library J. Webb Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1980 edition
Mechanism, Mentalism and Metamathematics: An Essay on Finitism - Synthese Library
J. Webb
My original idea was to model the refutation of mechanism on the almost universally accepted G6delian refutation of Hilbert's formalism, but I kept getting stuck on questions of mathematical philosophy which I found myself having to beg.
285 pages, biography