Why Did Weyl Think That Emmy Noether Made Algebra the Eldorado of Axiomatics?

Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (1):122-142 (2021)
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This paper argues that Noether's axiomatic method in algebra cannot be assimilated to Weyl's late view on axiomatics, for his acquiescence to a phenomenological epistemology of correctness led Weyl to resist Noether's principle of detachment.

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Systems of predicative analysis.Solomon Feferman - 1964 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 29 (1):1-30.
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