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The speaker thinks Brouwer anticipated a mathematics built from understood elements from the ground up, rather than from opaque axioms.
Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026
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“But I think what he could see or anticipate was the need to build mathematics from elements that you actually understand instead of from, from axioms, from things that you-- where you don't have any black boxes, but everything is built from the ground up.”1:15:13Report a misattribution
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