Fixing Frege / / John P. Burgess.
The great logician Gottlob Frege attempted to provide a purely logical foundation for mathematics. His system collapsed when Bertrand Russell discovered a contradiction in it. Thereafter, mathematicians and logicians, beginning with Russell himself, turned in other directions to look for a framework...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Frege, Russell, and After
- CHAPTER 2. Predicative Theories
- CHAPTER 3. Impredicative Theories
- Tables
- Notes
- References
- Index