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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Five Milestones of Empiricism' and 'Grundgesetze der Arithmetik 2 (Basic Laws)'

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2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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Later Frege held that definitions must fix a function's value for every possible argument [Frege, by Wright,C]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 7. Contextual Definition

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Contextual definition shifted the emphasis from words to whole sentences [Quine]

9845	We can't define a word by defining an expression containing it, as the remaining parts are a problem [Frege]

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Bentham's contextual definitions preserved terms after their denotation became doubtful [Quine]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition

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Only what is logically complex can be defined; what is simple must be pointed to [Frege]