Hilbert’s Finitism and the Notion of Infinity

Karl-Georg Niebergall, Matthias Schirn

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Published: Aug 20, 1998

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198236542.003.00127

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Abstract When Hilbert set about developing his foundational programme in the l 920s, proof theory was still enjoying a state of pre-Gödelian innocence. The principal objective of the programme was to establish once and for all the entire heritage of classical mathematics by means of a finitist metamathematical consistency proof.

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