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Intuition and the Axiomatic Method in Hilbert’s Foundation of Physics

Hilbert’s Idea of a Recursive Epistemology in His Third Hamburg Lecture

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Majer, U., Sauer, T. (2006). Intuition and the Axiomatic Method in Hilbert’s Foundation of Physics. In: Carson, E., Huber, R. (eds) Intuition and the Axiomatic Method. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4040-7_10

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