The foundations of arithmetic
by Gottlob Frege · first published 1968
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…self-study curriculum (created by me). I didn't bring math into the curriculum until about three years ago, I've been fond of logic and the methods of logic for quite some time and ended up finding "The Foundations of Arithmetic" by Gottlieb Frege - a treatise attempting to provide a purely logical framework for number (he influenced set theory) and the operations on number; but, reading it really fired me up, I was absorbed…
on “Kill Math” ↗I read The Foundations of Arithmetic and On Sense and Reference for my analytic philosophy course. This was in the U.S. fifteen years ago. I agree that he was not treated as obscure at all. We wouldn't have Carnap (the analytic philosopher)…
on “Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost (2017)” ↗In Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic he disagrees with Kant that a proposition like "2 + 12 = 14" is synthetic (and Kant used large numbers as an example of how analysis would fail!!!). However, once we have a large language model we can…
on “Prompt Engineering Guide: Guides, papers, and resources for prompt engineering” ↗Such as Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic?
on “Do ethicists steal more books? (2009) [pdf]” ↗