Carl Gustav Hempel

...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and

A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation. -

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on empirical subject matter. - Carl Gustav Hempel (Philosopher)Mathematical Metaphysics - An Infinity of planksip® Art and