Hardcover, x + 256 pges, NOT ex-library. Missing the dust jacket; else a good copy showing limited wear. Interior is clean, with a hint of mild age-toning to edges, two folded corners, firm secure binding. Five lines written in pen on p.179, one word in bottom margin of p.12, minor sparse underlining/marking in pen on four pages: p.111, p.170, p.172, p.180. Boards show a couple of scratches, faint storage marks. -- Contents: Proof as a Source of Truth / Michael D. Resnik; Reflections on the Concept of a Priori Truth and Its Corruption by Kant / William W. Tait; Logicism / Steven J. Wagner; Empirical Inquiry and Proof / Shelley Stillwell; On the Concept of Proof in Elementary Geometry / Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer; Mathematical Rigor in Physics / Mark Steiner; Foundationalism and Foundations of Mathematics / Stewart Shapiro; Brouwerian Intuitionism / Michael Detlefsen.

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Title: Proof and Knowledge in Mathematics
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1992
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415068053
ISBN 13: 9780415068055
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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These questions arise from any attempt to discover an epistemology for mathematics. This collection of essays considers various questions concerning the nature of justification in mathematics and possible sources of that justification. Among these are the question of whether mathematical justification is a priori or a posteriori in character, whether logical and mathematical differ, and if formalization plays a significant role in mathematical justification,

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