Talking about Numbers: Easy Arguments for Mathematical Realism [Book Review]

History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (4):390-394 (2017)
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In §57 of the Foundations of Arithmetic, Frege famously turns to natural language to support his claim that numbers are ‘self-subsistent objects’:I have already drawn attention above to the fact th...

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