It is one of the salient features of an intuitionistic philosophy of mathematics that it denies the possibility that there may be infinite coincidences in mathematics: if a sentence is true, it can only be because there is a finitely expressible reason for it. The same view was expressed from a different standpoint by Hilbert in 1924 when he asserted that in mathematics there is ignorabimus. It...

In this book, Notturn o states that in there has been a significant paradigm shift in Philosophy: the shift from an old episte m ological paradigm which he denomina t e s EP1 to a new one which he calls EP2. EP1 is the view that states that there are self-evident truths that exist and remain changeless and eternal. Under this paradigm, these trut hs guarantee objective knowledge. The EP2 start ...