"Elegi Menggapai "Constructivism as the Epistemological Foundation of Mathematics"

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

Wilder R.L.(1952) illustrates that as a complete rejection of Platonism, constructivism is not a product of the situation created by the paradoxes but rather a spirit which is practically present in the whole history of mathematics. The philo-sophical ideas taken go back at least to Aris¬totle's analysis of the notion of infinity. Kant's philosophy of