Bishopian Constructivism and Attitude Toward Classical Mathematics
Bishop described what he perceived as a lack of meaning in classical mathematics, a condition he described both as "schizophrenia" and a "debasement of meaning", and expressed the sentiment in 1968 that its demise is "very possible".
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