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Remarks on finitism

from PART IV - PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL THOUGHT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2017

Wilfried Sieg
Affiliation:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
Richard Sommer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Carolyn Talcott
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics
Essays in Honor of Solomon Feferman
, pp. 410 - 419
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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