Single Idea 16880

[catalogued under 6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / a. Early logicism]

Full Idea

Frege saw arithmetical judgements as resting on a foundation of logical principles, and the discovery of this foundation as a discovery of the nature and structure of the justification of arithmetical truths and judgments.

Gist of Idea

Frege aimed to discover the logical foundations which justify arithmetical judgements

Source

report of Gottlob Frege (works [1890]) by Tyler Burge - Frege on Knowing the Foundations Intro

Book Reference

Burge,Tyler: 'Truth, Thought, Reason (on Frege)' [OUP 2001], p.317


A Reaction

Burge's point is that the logic justifies the arithmetic, as well as underpinning it.