Abstract
. Hilbert's finitist programwas not created at the beginning of the twenties solely to
counteract Brouwer's intuitionism, but rather emerged out of broad philosophical reflections
on the foundations of mathematics and out of detailed logical work; that is evident from notes
of lecture courses that were given by Hilbert and prepared in collaboration with Bernays
during the period from 1917 to 1922. These notes reveal a dialectic progression from a critical
logicism through a radical...
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