Single Idea 16905

[catalogued under 6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism]

Full Idea

For Frege, that arithmetic is essentially general, governing (applying to) everything, entails that its ultimate building blocks are purely logical.

Gist of Idea

Arithmetic must be based on logic, because of its total generality

Source

report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Robin Jeshion - Frege's Notion of Self-Evidence 2

Book Reference

-: 'Mind' [-], p.947


A Reaction

Put like that, it doesn't sound very persuasive. If any truth is totally general, then it must be purely logical?