Immanuel Kant and the greater glory of geometry
pp. 17-70
in: Abner Shimony, Debra Nails (eds), Naturalistic epistemology, Berlin, Springer, 1987Abstract
to proceed axiomatically ... is simply to think with consciousness of what one is doing. In earlier times, when they did not use the axiomatic method, men believed in various connections with naive dogmatism. Axiomatics removes the naivete, but still leaves us with all the advantages of belief, (p. 161)
