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Quote: proofs and refutations--a proof can be respectable without being flawless; Seidel 1847, c.f. Hegel and Popper
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The idea --expressed so clearly by Seidel -- … unfortunately, still sounds revolutionary today. It is no … the breakdown of Newtonian optics (through the work … 1829 and Bolyai in 1832) shattered infallibilist conceit. … [footnote:] In the same decade Hegel's philosophy offered … approach to knowledge (Hegel and Popper represent the … privileged infallible status for mathematics). Google-1 Google-2
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