How to Say Things with Formalisms

Recent attention to "self-consistent" (Rosser-style) systems raises anew the question of the proper interpretation of the Gödel Second Incompleteness Theorem and its effect on Hilbert's Program. The traditional rendering and consequence is defended with new arguments justifying the intensional correctness of the derivability conditions

Finitism--an essay on Hilbert's programme

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219).by David Watson Galloway.Ph.D

The continuum hypothesis : independence and truth-value

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Philosophy, 1974.MIT Humanities Library copy: issued in two vols.Leaf number 84 used twice. Also issued as a two-volume set.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-258).by Thomas S. Weston.Ph.D