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(2004) Handbook of epistemology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Since its very beginnings mathematics played a special and distinguished role in the human knowledge. It was close to the ideal of a scientific theory, even more, it established such an ideal and served as a pattern of a theory. It has played an important role also in the development of the epistemology. In fact mathematics has been through ages a pattern of any rational knowledge and the paradigm of a priori knowledge. Hence the importance and meaning of philosophical and methodological reflections on mathematics as a science. Such reflections have accompanied mathematics since ancient Greece.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-1986-9_16
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Murawski, R. (2004)., Mathematical knowledge, in I. Niiniluoto, M. Sintonen & J. Woleński (eds.), Handbook of epistemology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 571-606.
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