How did formalism, intuitionism and logicism in mathematics exactly disagree with each other?

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What are the precise points of discussion that made the three of them irreconcilable? My online research on the topic seems to describe each of them individually but I have not found a detailed comparison and don’t want to rely only on my own conclusions.

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i skimmed this article and am r-worded

https://works.swarthmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1458&context=fac-philosophy#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9CBig%20Four%E2%80%9D%20philosophical%20views,are%20ultimately%20truths%20of%20logic.

however, on the second page of the article the author describes the main holes each approach poked in the others. i don’t want to make a fool of myself and pretend to understand them. i found it to be similar to religions, where each approach has a valid structure and reasoning, but are all ultimately flawed in some way that can be addressed in an alternative approach. no one approach agreed with ALL of mathematics. good luck with your research, this is a very difficult subject to wrap my head around.

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