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Full Idea
In reducing arithmetic to logic Frege was precisely trying to show the independence of this study from any peculiarly mathematical intuitions.
Gist of Idea
Frege's logicism aimed at removing the reliance of arithmetic on intuition
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Palle Yourgrau - Sets, Aggregates and Numbers 'Two'
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Mathematics: anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.356