When1: 1977
When2: 1991
Who: Michael Dummett [Dummett, Michael]
What: philosopher
Where: England
works\ Elements of Intuitionism [1977]; Truth and Other Enigmas [1978]; Frege: Philosophy of Language [1981: 2nd edition]; Logical Basis of Metaphysics [1991]
Detail: He lived 1925 to ? and used Frege's philosophy to make a theory of meaning based on evidence.
Epistemology
Events can have poor evidence, such as the past, other people's minds, and mathematics, and so statements about them are neither true nor false {antirealism}. For those situations, people use intuitions {intuitionism, Dummett}. Studying language can analyze thought. To prove that something mathematical exists is to show how to make it {constructivism, Dummett}.
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