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Single Idea 10622

[filed under theme 6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / c. Neo-logicism ]

Full Idea

The neo-Fregean takes a more optimistic view than Frege of the prospects for the kind of contextual explanation of the fundamental concepts of arithmetic and analysis (cardinals and reals), which he rejected in 'Grundlagen' 60-68.

Gist of Idea

The neo-Fregean is more optimistic than Frege about contextual definitions of numbers

Source

B Hale / C Wright (Intro to 'The Reason's Proper Study' [2001], §1)

Book Ref

Hale,B/Wright,C: 'The Reason's Proper Study' [OUP 2003], p.1


The 15 ideas with the same theme [revival of logicism after much criticism]:

Ramified types can be defended as a system of intensional logic, with a 'no class' view of sets [Russell, by Linsky,B]
Neo-logicists agree that HP introduces number, but also claim that it suffices for the job [Bostock]
Neo-logicists meet the Caesar problem by saying Hume's Principle is unique to number [Bostock]
Wright has revived Frege's discredited logicism [Wright,C, by Benardete,JA]
The Peano Axioms, and infinity of cardinal numbers, are logical consequences of how we explain cardinals [Wright,C]
The aim is to follow Frege's strategy to derive the Peano Axioms, but without invoking classes [Wright,C]
The neo-Fregean is more optimistic than Frege about contextual definitions of numbers [Hale/Wright]
Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright]
Neo-Fregeanism might be better with truth-makers, rather than quantifier commitment [Hale/Wright]
Mathematics is both necessary and a priori because it really consists of logical truths [Yablo]
Proceduralism offers a version of logicism with no axioms, or objects, or ontological commitment [Fine,K]
Logicism is distinctive in seeking a universal language, and denying that logic is a series of abstractions [Shapiro]
We can get arithmetic directly from HP; Law V was used to get HP from the definition of number [Maddy]
Add Hume's principle to logic, to get numbers; arithmetic truths rest on the nature of the numbers [Hale]
Neo-Fregeans are dazzled by a technical result, and ignore practicalities [Hofweber]