Convinced that the classically undecidable problems of mathematics possess
determinate truth values, Gödel issued a programmatic call to search for new
axioms for their solution.
The platonism underlying his belief in the determinateness of those
questions in combination with his conception of intuition as a kind of
perception have struck many of his readers as highly problematic.
Following Gödel’s own suggestion, this article explores ideas from
phenomenology to specify a meaning for his mathematical realism that
allows for a defensible epistemology.