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Most mathematicians are wroth, rather justifiably so I think, at the suggestion that mathematics has no content and that proofs of the impossibility of certain combinations or of the indemonstrability of certain theorems are a sort of meta-chess. Between wordless thought and thoughtless words, the decision would possibly rest with the former.
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Hesseling, D.E. (2003). Conclusion. In: Gnomes in the Fog. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 28. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7989-7_7
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