FOM: hostility toward f.o.m.

[tempodaperder]

in my humble opinion, there is a problem and it gets worse by 
overgeneralization.
some logicians had the view that logic itself provides a foundation in an 
epistemological sense (how can we make sure that analysis is rigorous and 
not faulty? how can we be ceratin that no contradictions come up within a 
formal system?)
that view seems to entail that logicians can play the role of watchmen, 
overvewers of mathematicians, practising mathematicians.
it seems to me that now logic itself is a mathematical discipline and its 
results are on teh same footign as others.
adriano palma


ap palma
crea, ecole polytechnique
1 rue descartes
f-75005 paris france


email: palma at poly.polytechnique.fr