Logicism
Deutsch, Harry
hdeutsch at ilstu.edu
Mon Aug 10 13:49:13 EDT 2020
How about the system Boolos calls “Frege Arithmetic.” See Logic, Logic, and Logic.
Harry
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> There seems to be agreement that some mathematical propositions can be shown to be equivalent to truths of logic, and others can’t, but drawing a line between what is “logical” and what is “mathematical” is hard.
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> I’ve had trouble finding a simple, streamlined development of BASIC logicism. Can anyone provide a source for a presentation of a logical system (by which I mean, at the very least, a computable deductive calculus that generates truths of logic) , and an interpretation of theorems of Peano Arithmetic as logical truths in this system?
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> — JS
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