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2000
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Neo-Fregean Foundations for Real Analysis: Some Reflections on Frege's Constraint
now of a number of ways of developing Real Analysis on a basis of abstraction principles and second-order logic. One, outlined by Shapiro in his contribution to this volume, mimic...
Crispin Wright
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2000
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An Information-Based Theory of Conditionals
We present an approach to combining three areas of research which we claim are all based on information theory: knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sc...
Wayne Wobcke
NDJFL
2000
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Cardinality, Counting, and Equinumerosity
Frege, famously, held that there is a close connection between our concept of cardinal number and the notion of one-one correspondence, a connection enshrined in Hume's Princi...
Richard G. Heck Jr.
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2000
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On the Origin and Status of our Conception of Number
Abstract This paper concerns the epistemic status of "Hume's principle"-the assertion that for any concepts Fand G, the number of Fs is the same as the number of Gs ...
William Demopoulos
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2000
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The Fruits of Logicism
Timothy Bays
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2000
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Frege's New Science
In this paper, we explore Fregean metatheory, what Frege called the New Science. The New Science arises in the context of Frege's debate with Hilbert over independence proofs ...
Aldo Antonelli, Robert May