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Single Idea 7804

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

Full Idea

Crispin Wright has reactivated Frege's logistic program, which for decades just about everybody assumed was a lost cause.

Gist of Idea

Wright has revived Frege's discredited logicism

Source

report of Crispin Wright (Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects [1983]) by José A. Benardete - Logic and Ontology 3

Book Ref

'A Companion of Philosophical Logic', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.354


A Reaction

[This opens Bernadete's section called "Back to Strong Logicism?"]