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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...
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states of
individual mathematicians and logicians.
Following Frege, the
logicists tended to
advocate a kind of
mathematical platonism.
Frege also proved...
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mathematics is
reducible to logic, and
hence nothing but a part of logic.: 41
Logicists hold that
mathematics can be
known a priori, but
suggest that our knowledge...
- 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...
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proof procedure approach that had been the
mainstay of the
Edinburgh Logicists. At the
University of Edinburgh,
Bruce Anderson implemented a
subset of...
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symbolic AI, both
within the field—e.g.,
between logicists (the pro-logic "neats") and non-
logicists (the anti-logic "scruffies")—and
between those who...
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argues for
Platonism with
respect to
numbers and is a
seminal text of the
logicist project.
Contemporary analytic philosophers who
espoused Platonism in metaphysics...
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mediation in the
social world; he
viewed structuralism as a
variation on the "
logicist" theme,
arguing that,
contrary to what
structuralists advocate, language—and...
- 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...
