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W. Sieg: Beyond Hilbert's Reach

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Posted 06/22/09 - 06:31 AM: Subject: W. Sieg: Beyond Hilbert's Reach	#1
Hello, I'm sorry in case there is a forum where discussions about philosophical texts should be placed instead of this one here. I'm going to give a seminar about the text "Beyond Hilbert's Reach" from Wilfried Sieg. I have a couple of questions about it and therefore would like to know whether anyone in this forum knows the text. I have trouble seeing the philosophical meaning of the work. To me it looks much more like a description about how Hilbert's development and attempts to proove consistency of arithmetics changed over time. In the fifth chapter, the focus of my interest, there is a section about what his student Bernays thought about the nature of natural numbers. After that section, the work of Aczel is introduced which I don't understand at all - there are words and symbols which don't mean anything to me. If anyone knows the text or knows where I could find some more information about it and its (philosophical) meaning, I'd greatly appreciate your input.

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