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Originally Posted by Jon
in this thread we shall become logicists and take up their ambition to reduce mathematical truths to logical truths...
we'll get out of russell's paradox and establish the true foundation of mathematics!
it took Frege and Russell their whole life to fail at this...but today...on this thread (and before bedtime)...MBTI Central will win...
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Frege and Russell may have failed but George Spencer-Brown succeeded in his book, "The Laws of Form".
In which all of mathematics begins with an injunction -
"Make a distinction".