Advertisement
 Translation for 'finitism' from English to Russian
In eigener Sache: Wir versuchen derzeit, ein Wörterbuch für Ukrainisch-Deutsch aufzubauen und würden uns über Sprachaufnahmen oder Übersetzungsvorschläge freuen!
NOUN   finitism | -
мат.филос.
финитизм {м}
finitism
1 translation
To translate another word just start typing!

Translation for 'finitism' from English to Russian

finitism
финитизм {м}мат.филос.
Advertisement
Usage Examples English
  • 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.
Advertisement
© dict.cc Russian-English dictionary 2024
Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
Links to this dictionary or to individual translations are very welcome!