Mathematics and Symbolic Logics: Some Notes on an Uneasy Relationship

History and Philosophy of Logic 20 (3-4):159-167 (1999)
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Symbolic logics tend to be too mathematical for the philosophers and too philosophical for the mathematicians; and their history is too historical for most mathematicians, philosophers and logicians. This paper reflects upon these professional demarcations as they have developed during the century

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