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Single Idea 17443

[catalogued under 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence]

Full Idea

Frege sometimes speaks of 'the dependence of truths upon one another' (1884:§2), but I find such ideas obscure, and suspect I'm not the only one who does.

Gist of Idea

Many of us find Frege's claim that truths depend on one another an obscure idea

Source

comment on Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884], §02) by Richard G. Heck - Cardinality, Counting and Equinumerosity 1

Book Reference

-: 'Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic' [-], p.190


A Reaction

He refers to Burge 'struggling mightily' with this aspect of Frege's thought. I intend to defend Frege. See his 1914 lectures. I thought this dependence was basic to the whole modern project of doing metaphysics through logic?

Related Idea

Idea 17445 Parallelism is intuitive, so it is more fundamental than sameness of direction [Frege, by Heck]