axiomatics

adriano paolo shaul gershom palma palmaadriano at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 02:06:37 EDT 2020


Dear Dr Shipman you may find the relevant quotes , not the names fo
authors,  following, e.g., --108 & ff of Giancarlo Rota.
I include the book as edited by Palombi for Birkhauser.

best regards


may


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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 7:56 AM Joe Shipman <joeshipman at aol.com> wrote:

> I would appreciate either links or quotes. All people are giving me is
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> On Apr 23, 2020, at 1:50 AM, adriano paolo shaul gershom palma <
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> Dear Dr Shipman
> you may find a wealth of remarks critical of axiomatic methods
> in the works of Giancarlo Rota (MIT.)
> While I am unsure whether Rota ought to be categorized as philosopher or
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> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:23 PM Antonino Drago <drago at unina.it> wrote:
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>> D. Kant: “On the other hand, some philosophers also argue that the
>> axiomatic view on mathematics may be harmful in that it omits fundamental
>> aspects of mathematical practice and idealizes mathematical reasoning in an
>> unfaithful way.”
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>> Which philosophers? I’m interested in any references you have on this
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>> Take for example Jean Le Rond D’Alembert “Elémens” in Encyclopédie
>> Française :  a « rational » theory leaves always some « holes »(trous)
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>> Lazare Carnot  Essai sur les machines en général ; pp. 105-106
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>> A century ago Lorentz, Poincaré and Einstein contrasted two kinds of
>> theories, as Flores illustrated: Flores, F. (1999). Einstein’s Theory of
>> Theories and Types of Theoretical Explanation. International Studies in
>> Philosophy of Science, 13, 123-134.
>> https://doi.org/10.1080/02698599908573613.
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>> In my opinion, axiomatic theories cannot represent theories based on the
>> search of a new method for solving a basic problem (as e.g. is Kolmogorov
>> ’s paper of 1924-25, or Markov’s paper on constructive mathematics 1971).
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>> Best regards
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