The knowing mathematician
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Nicolas D. Goodman
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Article
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1984
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Mathematics is at the beginning of a new foundational crisis. Twenty years ago there was a firm consensus that mathematics is set theory and that set theory is Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF). That consensus is breaking down. It is breaking down for two quite different reasons. One of these is a tu