Commentary on Theories of Mathematics Education

512 F. Arzarello
different lenses is a richness: through them it is possible to face our metatheorical
issues from different perspectives. A similar situation we find in mathematics: after
Gödel we have not only a relativism in theories (this goes back to the discovery of
non-euclidean geometries) but also in metatheories (e.g. different metatheoretical
frames for drawing relative consistence proofs).
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