THE MATHEMATICAL PRESENT AS HISTORY.

An essay is presented on the transformation of mathematical philosophy of philosopher Imre Lakatos in the 19th century. It explores four issues relative to Lakatos' historiography including lemma-incorporation or the method of refutations and proofs, difference of Hegelian lemma incorporation with L...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Forum Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 263 - 288
Autor principal: Kadvany, John
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Summer1995
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Sumario:An essay is presented on the transformation of mathematical philosophy of philosopher Imre Lakatos in the 19th century. It explores four issues relative to Lakatos' historiography including lemma-incorporation or the method of refutations and proofs, difference of Hegelian lemma incorporation with Lakatos Bildungsroman, and the importance of lemma-incorporation. It adds that the formalism and logical theory of Lakatos lacks the definition and precision of lemma-incorporation in the history.