Single Idea 11063

[catalogued under 6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / d. Logicism critique]

Full Idea

All versions of the thesis that arithmetic is reducible to logic remain questionable as long as no good theory of analyticity is available.

Gist of Idea

Logicism struggles because there is no decent theory of analyticity

Source

Robert Hanna (Rationality and Logic [2006], 2.4)

Book Reference

Hanna,Robert: 'Rationality and Logic' [MIT 2006], p.37


A Reaction

He rejects the attempts by Frege, Wittgenstein and Carnap to provide a theory of analyticity.