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10-19-2005, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by AntonioLao
As some intuitionists would say math is prior within the mind (idealized existence) before rationality (reasoning and thinking). No one has to be taught to recognize what is beautiful and symmetrical.
That's true. But in my opinion, logicists and intuitionists don't disagree, they just look at different aspects of maths. Intuitionists look at the prior knowledge and logicists look at base-knowledge.

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