[FOM] Certificates are fully practical

[Richard Heck]

On 09/26/2013 07:07 PM, Alan Weir wrote:
> In general, I remain to be convinced that there is a sense of 'in 
> principle possible' which is at all helpful in philosophy of 
> mathematics, one in which, for example, all finite proofs are 'in 
> principle' graspable but no countably infinite one is. 

There is a very nice paper on this topic by Charles Parsons, " What Can 
We Do 'In Principle'?" Unfortunately, it is in one of those very hard to 
find places:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-0487-8_17
and my library, at least, does not give me access.

Richard

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