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The twentieth century – and we hardly need a longer perspective to see this – was beset by, and in cultural life almost defined by, an unteachable enfant terriblisme. From Dadaism to the 1960s to postmodernism, it was sufficient to throw tomatoes at tradition to get a full-page spread from the intellectual paparazzi.

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Franklin, J. (2014). Epilogue: Mathematics, Last Bastion of Reason. In: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_17

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