RecordNumber
3377
Author
Korchevoi, Sergei
Crop_Body
Sergei Korchevoi
Title of Article
A CONCEPT OF MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY AND THE GETTIER PROBLEM
Title Of Journal
philosophy of mathematics education
Publication Year
2016
Volum
30
Abstract
The article discusses the issue of certainty of mathematics through the lens of two epistemological problems: the skeptical argument and Gettier cases. Regarding practical or applied mathematics mathematical knowledge is vulnerable to both: the skeptical hypothesis and the Gettier problem, therefore, the pure absolutist view seems to be irrelevant. Nevertheless, the former problem does not afflict pure mathematics under the light of anti-lick epistemology. Thus, a common intuition that pure mathematical knowledge exhibits a degree of certainty that exceeds analogous parameters of other scientific activity is plausible.