Imre Lakatos`s Philosophy of Mathematics
... intuition. In other words, the axioms are logically true statements (or theorems of logic), and their negations are self-contradictions. In this case, infallibility of the axioms is given on the same basis as the validity of deduction (i.e. the power of logic), and since logic has some intimate rela ...
... intuition. In other words, the axioms are logically true statements (or theorems of logic), and their negations are self-contradictions. In this case, infallibility of the axioms is given on the same basis as the validity of deduction (i.e. the power of logic), and since logic has some intimate rela ...
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos (Hungarian: Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ]; November 9, 1922 – February 2, 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the 'research programme' in his methodology of scientific research programmes.