-
themselves were
reducible to sets and mappings. It is
likely that
other logicists, most
importantly Frege, were also
guided by the new
theories of the real...
- Frege's
attempt to
reduce mathematics to
logic and
calling into
question the
logicist programme. Two
influential ways of
avoiding the
paradox were both proposed...
- mathematics. His book the
Foundations of
Arithmetic is the
seminal text of the
logicist project, and is
cited by
Michael Dummett as
where to
pinpoint the linguistic...
- Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times: A Memoir. In it, he
called himself a "
logicist," who
believes in "logic and
common sense",
holding conservative positions...
- the
project of
reducing arithmetic to pure logic. As a
result of his
logicist project,
Frege developed predicate logic in the
Begriffsschrift (English:...
- development. The
logicist period from the
Begriffsschrift of
Frege to the
Principia Mathematica of
Russell and Whitehead. The aim of the "
logicist school" was...
-
argues for
Platonism with
respect to
numbers and is a
seminal text of the
logicist project.
Contemporary analytic philosophers who
espoused Platonism in metaphysics...
-
December 1942) is a
British philosopher, who has
written on neo-Fregean (neo-
logicist)
philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's
later philosophy, and on issues...
-
mediation in the
social world; he
viewed structuralism as a
variation on the "
logicist" theme,
arguing that,
contrary to what
structuralists advocate, language—and...
-
known for his
contributions to the
development of the neo-Fregean (neo-
logicist)
philosophy of
mathematics in
collaboration with
Crispin Wright, and for...
