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Resolving a contradiction by means of mathematical or logico-mathematical discovery is not among the tasks of philosophers (is the suggestion here that there is something problematic with the whole idea of resolving a contradiction by means of mathematical or logico-mathematical discovery? - Is that anyone's task?)
Again - the philosopher's task is to make the conceptual terrain surveyable.
Our problems (in mathematics) result from becoming entangled in rules we have laid down. So what we need to do is to clearly survey the rules and what we find when we follow them.
The philosophical problem is "the civic status of a contradiction". The problem is we misconceive contradictions. (Why 'civic status' here? - Is the point just that most/many people misconceive contradictions).
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