FOM: advanced logic of Shipman

Kanovei kanovei at wminf2.math.uni-wuppertal.de
Thu Oct 1 12:28:23 EDT 1998


Shipman wrote: 

<then all mathematics can be seen as "advanced logic" and logicism is a complete
<success 
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Mathematics is "advanced logic" perhaps only if you understand 
"logic" as a description of basic rules of mathematical 
thought which (the rules) were first (historically) determined 
by *counting pebbles*, so to speak. 
Simillarly: USA home politics is "advanced constitution of USA".

Vladimir Kanovei





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