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The Method of Postulates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Edward V. Huntington
Edward V. Huntington*
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Extract

The subject to which I invite your attention this evening is a very recent development in mathematics which happens to be of great importance to philosophy.

The question may perhaps be raised why a terrifying topic like mathematics as introduced into an Institute of Philosophy. There are two answers to this question. In the first place my talk this evening will not be a “mathematical lecture” in any ordinary sense of the term, and no mathematical knowledge whatsoever will be presupposed. In the second place, even if it were to be a mathematical lecture, such an audience as is here assembled tonight would find nothing terrifying in the prospect.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1937 , pp. 482 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1937

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Footnotes

1

Outline of an illustrated lecture delivered at Brunswick, Maine, April 13, 1937, as part of the Institute of Philosophy held from April 6th to 16th at Bowdoin College.

References

2 In technical mathematical literature, however, many writers use the word “axiom” in the sense here reserved for “postulate.”