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Full Idea
Formalism seems to exclude from consideration all creative, growing mathematics.
Gist of Idea
Formalism seems to exclude all creative, growing mathematics
Source
Alan Musgrave (Logicism Revisited [1977], §5)
Book Ref
-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.119
A Reaction
[He cites Lakatos in support] I am not immediately clear why spotting the remote implications of a formal system should be uncreative. The greatest chess players are considered to be highly creative and imaginative.