Stability proofs and consistency proofs: A loose analogy

Philosophy of Science 31 (4):301-318 (1964)
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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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The Gödel theorem.Norwood Russell Hanson - 1961 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 2 (2):94-110.

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