PROFOUND: MEANING AND TESTIMONY —“Brouwer’s criticisms of classical mathematic

PROFOUND: MEANING AND TESTIMONY

—“Brouwer’s criticisms of classical mathematics were concerned with what I shall refer to as ‘the debasement of meaning’”— (Bishop in Rosenblatt, 1985, p. 1)

Let me see if I can translate this one….

—“My criticisms of rationalism are concerned with the debasement of the meaning of truth: that which I can testify to having observed. And by consequence the cumulative externalities produced by the systematic debasement of the meaning of truth, and therefore the systematic debasement of our ability to testify truthfully. High trust societies, and their economic velocity, are not possible, or is liberty, under rationalism independent of the requirement for construction”—