Proving Things About the Informal

Stewart Shapiro ()
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Stewart Shapiro: The Ohio State University

A chapter in Turing’s Revolution, 2015, pp 283-296 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There has been a bit of discussion, of late, as to whether Church’s thesis is subject to proof. The purpose of this article is to help clarify the issue by discussing just what it is to be a proof of something, and the relationship of the intuitive notion of proof to its more formal explications. A central item on the agenda is the epistemological role of proofs.

Keywords: Church’s thesis; Proof; Epistemology; Vagueness; Kleene; Church; Wang; Gandy; Godel; Sieg; Gandy; Lakatos; Foundationalism; Self-evidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22156-4_11

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