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Old 10-08-2008, 05:10 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Victor View Post
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".
I've never read it. But you're saying that it purports to save logicism? Or that it provides another basic account of number?

Because I think the last real attempt was Wright's neo-logicism. Meh, I'm a formalist about math, lol.
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