Thompson’s Notions of the Fallacies of Mathematical Intuition

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

Thompson, P.,1993, elaborated that those who are eager to argue how futile it is to try and demarcate or even seek out an epistemologically safe subsystem of pure intuitive propositions which could be used as the basis for an unproblematic branch of mathematics, also tend to emphasize how often we fail to discriminate


reliable intuitions from processes