Translation for '
finitism' from English to Russian
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- Although he denied it, much of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writing on mathematics has a strong affinity with finitism.
- In the philosophy of mathematics, ultrafinitism (also known as ultraintuitionism, actualism, predicativism, and strong finitism) is a form of finitism and intuitionism.
- Van Bendegem wrote his PhD thesis in philosophy on the subject of finitism under the supervision of Diderik Batens while at Ghent University.
- The difficulty with finitism is to develop foundations of mathematics using finitist assumptions, that incorporates what everyone would reasonably regard as mathematics (for example, that includes real analysis).
- Ultrafinitism is an even more extreme version of finitism, which rejects not only infinities but finite quantities that cannot feasibly be constructed with available resources.
- Brightman (1884–1953) defended theistic finitism in his book "A Philosophy of Religion", published in 1940.
- Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful".
- The primitive recursive functions are closely related to mathematical finitism, and are used in several contexts in mathematical logic where a particularly constructive system is desired.
- These include the program of intuitionism founded by Brouwer, the finitism of Hilbert and Bernays, the constructive recursive mathematics of Shanin and Markov, and Bishop's program of constructive analysis.
- The incompleteness theorems arguably constitute a similar obstacle for Hilbertian finitism.
- In particular, Kuhn's ideas regarding science occurring within an established framework informed Barnes's own ideas regarding finitism, a theory wherein meaning is continuously changed (even during periods of normal science) by its usage within the social framework.
- This skepticism was developed in the philosophy of mathematics called finitism, an extreme form of mathematical philosophy in the general philosophical and mathematical schools of constructivism and intuitionism.
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