Ideas from 'On the Concept of Number' by David Hilbert [1900], by Theme Structure
[found in 'From Kant to Hilbert: sourcebook Vol. 2' (ed/tr Ewald,William) [OUP 1996,0-19-850536-1]].
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Hilbert said (to block paradoxes) that mathematical existence is entailed by consistency [Potter]
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