Single Idea 1613

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

Full Idea

The logicism of Frege, Russell, Whitehead, Church and Carnap condones the use of bound variables or reference to abstract entities known and unknown, specifiable and unspecifiable, indiscriminately.

Gist of Idea

Logicists cheerfully accept reference to bound variables and all sorts of abstract entities

Source

Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.14)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.14