| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : David Hilbert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | There seem to have been both technical and psychological reasons why he formulated this proposal. |
| | It affirmed his dislike of what had become known as the ignorabimus, still an active issue in his time in German thought, and traced back in that formulation to Emil du Bois-Reymond. |
| | This program is still recognisable in the most popular philosophy of mathematics, amongst working mathematicians that is, usually called formalism. |
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