Switch to: References

Citations of:

On the nature of mathematical systems

Dialectica 12 (3‐4):296-316 (1958)

Add citations

You must login to add citations.
  1. Generality and existence: Quantificational logic in historical perspective.Jan von Plato - 2014 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 20 (4):417-448.
    Frege explained the notion of generality by stating that each its instance is a fact, and added only later the crucial observation that a generality can be inferred from an arbitrary instance. The reception of Frege’s quantifiers was a fifty-year struggle over a conceptual priority: truth or provability. With the former as the basic notion, generality had to be faced as an infinite collection of facts, whereas with the latter, generality was based on a uniformity with a finitary sense: the (...)
    Download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark