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Full Idea
Frege thinks there is a single right deductive order of the truths. This is not an epistemic order, but a logical order, and it is our job to arrange our beliefs in this order if we can make it out.
Gist of Idea
Frege thinks there is an independent logical order of the truths, which we must try to discover
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (works [1890]) by William D. Hart - The Evolution of Logic 2
Book Ref
Hart,W.D.: 'The Evolution of Logic' [CUP 2010], p.44
A Reaction
Frege's dream rests on the belief that there exists a huge set of logical truths. Pluralism, conventionalism, constructivism etc. about logic would challenge this dream. I think the defence of Frege must rest on Russellian rooting of logic in nature.
| 13473 | Frege thinks there is an independent logical order of the truths, which we must try to discover [Frege, by Hart,WD] |
| 15571 | The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology [Heidegger] |
| 7537 | Wittgenstein convinced Russell that logic is tautologies, not Platonic forms [Wittgenstein, by Monk] |
| 7682 | Logic is not just about signs, because it relates to states of affairs, objects, properties and truth-values [Jacquette] |
| 8950 | Logic formalizes how we should reason, but it shouldn't determine whether we are realists [Fisher] |