"[T]he idea that by... such linguistic structures we can obtain knowledge of mathematics apart from that... constructed by direct intuition, is mistaken. And more so is the idea that we can lay in this way the foundations of mathematics."
L. E. J. Brouwer

January 1, 1970

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