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Hilbert's First Attempt at Establishing the Consistency of Arithmetic

ITEM: Hilbert, David. "On the Foundations of Logic and Arithmetic." In The Monist, July 1905, vol XV, No 3, pp 338-352 (in the entire issue of pp 321-478). Offered removed from a larger bound yearly volume of the journal, with evidence of that on the spine. Offered with the original printed wrappers. Ex-library, from the Bureau of American Ethnology. First translation in English frm the original delivery in 1904. Good copy. $125

The paper appears in From Frege to Goedel: a Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931, by Jean Van Heijenoort.

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