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Full Idea
The inherent limitations of the axiomatic method were first brought to light by the incompleteness theorems.
Gist of Idea
The limitations of axiomatisation were revealed by the incompleteness theorems
Source
report of Kurt Gödel (On Formally Undecidable Propositions [1931]) by Peter Koellner - On the Question of Absolute Undecidability 1.1
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophia Mathematica' [-], p.4
Related Idea
Idea 17886 The limitations of axiomatisation were revealed by the incompleteness theorems [Gödel, by Koellner]
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