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(2010) Set theory, miscellanea / Mengenlehre, varia, Dordrecht, Springer.
Zermelo 1932b
pp. 550-555
What is a "mathematical proposition", a "mathematical proof", a "mathematical theory", a "mathematical discipline"? A general theory of propositional systems as it underlies all mathematical disciplines is the subject of the following considerations outlined briefly here. A mathematical "proposition" makes sense and has a meaning only within a mathematical system, a theory or a (comprehensive) discipline as, e.g., "Euclidean geometry" or the "arithmetic of real numbers". But what are the characteristic features, what are the general basic laws of logic common to all "mathematical systems"?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79384-7_30
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(2010). Zermelo 1932b, in Set theory, miscellanea / Mengenlehre, varia, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 550-555.
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