Single Idea 10142

[catalogued under 2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition]

Full Idea

Frege gave up on the attempt to introduce natural numbers by contextual definition, but the project has been revived by neo-logicists.

Gist of Idea

The attempt to define numbers by contextual definition has been revived

Source

report of Crispin Wright (Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects [1983]) by Kit Fine - The Limits of Abstraction II

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'The Limits of Abstraction' [OUP 2008], p.55