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Stability Proofs and Consistency Proofs: A Loose Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Norwood Russell Hanson
Norwood Russell Hanson*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Abstract

A loose analogy relates the work of Laplace and Hilbert. These thinkers had roughly similar objectives. At a time when so much of our analytic effort goes to distinguishing mathematics and logic from physical theory, such an analogy can still be instructive, even though differences will always divide endeavors such as those of Laplace and Hilbert.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 1964 , pp. 301 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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