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WorksheetsPHILOSOPHY AND THE FOUR SCHOOLS
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
When professional mathematicians are concerned with the foundations of their subject, they are said to be engaged in foundational research
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When professional philosophers investigate philosophical questions concerning mathematics, they are said to contribute to the philosophy of mathematics
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It is broadly conceived as comprising proof theory, model theory, set theory, and computability theory as subfields
Mathematics
Logic
Mathematical Logic
Discrete Mathematics
In the first decades of the twentieth century, three non-Platonistic accounts of mathematics were developed except one.
Logicism
Formalism
Intuitionism
Predicativism
Frege's Basic Law V
logicism
formalism
intuitionism
predicativism
Russell’s paradox
logicism
formalism
intuitionism
predicativism
Hume’s Principle
logicism
formalism
intuitionism
predicativism
Peano Arithmetic
logicism
formalism
intuitionism
predicativism
mathematics is essentially an activity of construction
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
Resolutely rejects the existence of the actual (or completed) infinite; only potentially infinite collections are given in the activity of construction.
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
principle of excluded third
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
Heyting Arithmetic
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
natural numbers can be taken to be symbols
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
Primitive Recursive Arithmetic
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem
logicism
predicativism
intuitionism
formalism
