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

10568	Logicists say mathematics can be derived from definitions, and can be known that way [Fine,K]
	Full Idea: Logicists traditionally claim that the theorems of mathematics can be derived by logical means from the relevant definitions of the terms, and that these theorems are epistemically innocent (knowable without Kantian intuition or empirical confirmation).
	From: Kit Fine (Replies on 'Limits of Abstraction' [2005], 2)