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Single Idea 10804

[from 'Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations)' by Gottlob Frege, in 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason ]

Full Idea

Burge has argued that Frege's rationalism runs very deep. Frege holds that there is a natural order of thoughts to which human thinking is naturally drawn.

Gist of Idea

Thoughts have a natural order, to which human thinking is drawn

Source

report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Stephen Yablo - Carving Content at the Joints § 8

Book Reference

Yablo,Stephen: 'Things: Philosophical Papers vol. 2' [OUP 2010], p.258


A Reaction

[Yablo cites Burge 1984,1992,1998] What an intriguing idea. I always start from empiricist beginnings, but some aspects of rationalism just sieze you by the throat.

Related Idea

Idea 23495 The tautologies of logic show the logic of language and the world [Wittgenstein]