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On an alleged refutation of Hilbert's Program using Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem

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Detlefsen, M. On an alleged refutation of Hilbert's Program using Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem. J Philos Logic 19, 343–377 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263316

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