George Frederick James Temple - Philosophy Quotes

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Mathematics has also been developed as a philosophy, in the sense in which this term is defined by A. N. Whitehead as 'the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical and necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted'. Substitute 'mathematics' for 'experience' and we have an admirable description of its speculative and philosophic development.... Philosophy of mathematics... has its paradoxes and antimonies, and also diverse schools of thought...

George Frederick James Temple

Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.

George Frederick James Temple