A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths. - Gottlob Frege
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
- Gottlob Frege
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. - Gottlob Frege
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height. - Gottlob Frege
There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this posi… - Gottlob Frege
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this posi…
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of… - Gottlob Frege
It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of…
What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth? - Gottlob Frege
What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?
Arithmetic has began to totter. - Gottlob Frege
Arithmetic has began to totter.
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another. - Gottlob Frege
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thoug… - Gottlob Frege
'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thoug…
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