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Interesting article. I would add that Frege, Russell and Whitehead did not just want to logicize mathematics. They thought that reality itself followed this lo
by woodandsteel 10y ago
Interesting article.
I would add that Frege, Russell and Whitehead did not just want to logicize mathematics. They thought that reality itself followed this logic, and so were doing metaphysics. The later Wittgenstein is a decisive refutation of this idea, and this is a key reason logic has gone out of fashion.