“Despite their remoteness from sense experience, we do have something like a perception also of the objects of set theory, as is seen from the fact that the axioms force themselves upon us as being true. I don’t see any reason why we should have less confidence in this kind of perception, i.e., mathematical intuition, than in sense perception.” (Kurt Godel, in “What is Cantor’s Continuum Problem?”)
Apr
23
2010