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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism

17635	Arithmetic can have even simpler logical premises than the Peano Axioms [Russell on Peano]
	Full Idea: Peano's premises are not the ultimate logical premises of arithmetic. Simpler premises and simpler primitive ideas are to be had by carrying our analysis on into symbolic logic.
	From: comment on Giuseppe Peano (Principles of Arithmetic, by a new method [1889], p.276) by Bertrand Russell - Regressive Method for Premises in Mathematics p.276