Full Idea
Frege's project was to show that arithmetic is analytic.
Gist of Idea
Arithmetic is analytic
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Joan Weiner - Frege Ch.7
Book Reference
Weiner,Joan: 'Frege' [OUP 1999], p.118
A Reaction
This particularly opposes Kant (e.g. Idea 5525). My favoured view (which may have few friends) is that arithmetic is a set of facts about the necessary pattern relationships within any possible physical world. That will make it synthetic.
Related Idea
Idea 5525 No analysis of the sum of seven and five will in itself reveal twelve [Kant]