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[from 'works' by Gottlob Frege, in 5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 2. Platonism in Logic ]

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 Reference

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.