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Husserl and the "Foundations of geometry"
pp. 193-210
Abstract
In the late 1890's, there was a famous controvery between Hilbert and Frege concerning the "foundations of geometry," especially the status and meaning of non-Euclidean geometry. Husserl was a colleague of Hibert in Göttigen and an opponent of Frege and left a short manuscript that included an excerpt of their correspondence and critical comments on it. Husserl clearly understood the point of their crucial differences and sympathized with Hilbert's axiomatic method. But he could not rest content with Hilbert's formalistic position later and moved to the transcendental grounding of the sciences.
Publication details
Published in:
Blosser Philip, Shimomissé Eiichi, Embree Lester, Kojima Hiroshi (1993) Japanese and Western phenomenology. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 193-210
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8218-6_14
Full citation:
Noe Keiichi (1993) „Husserl and the "Foundations of geometry"“, In: P. Blosser, E. Shimomissé, L. Embree & H. Kojima (eds.), Japanese and Western phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, 193–210.