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The author analyzes proof and argumentation (mainly in mathematics and logic) as a form of appeal to a scientific community with deep ethical meaning. He presents proof primarily as an effort to persuade a scientific (sub) community rather than a search for true knowledge, as an instrument by which responsibility is taken for the correctness of the thesis being proved, which usually originates in a sudden flash of insight.
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