logicism

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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic

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Bob Hale and Crispin Wright argue that it is not a problem for logicism because the incompleteness theorems apply equally to first order logic as they do to arithmetic. Source: Internet

Gottlob Frege was the founder of logicism. Source: Internet

The starting point of the ongoing sympathetic reexamination of Frege's logicism. Source: Internet

From Bertrand Russell 's logicism they sought reduction of mathematics to logic. Source: Internet

Without this device, the project of logicism would have been doubtful or impossible. Source: Internet

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