-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- development. The
logicist period from the
Begriffsschrift of
Frege to the
Principia Mathematica of
Russell and Whitehead. The aim of the "
logicist school" was...
- 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...
-
December 1942) is a
British philosopher, who has
written on neo-Fregean (neo-
logicist)
philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's
later philosophy, and on issues...
- the
project of
reducing arithmetic to pure logic. As a
result of his
logicist project,
Frege developed predicate logic in his book
Begriffsschrift (English:...
-
influential 1951
paper Two
Dogmas of Empiricism,
American philosopher and
logicist Willard Van
Orman Quine challenged the analytic-synthetic distinction....
-
known for his
contributions to the
development of the neo-Fregean (neo-
logicist)
philosophy of
mathematics in
collaboration with
Crispin Wright, and for...
-
derived purely from a
logical system,
undermining the
logicist program. Some
notable logicists include:
Gottlob Frege:
Frege is
often regarded as the...
