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The Foundations of Arithmetic (German: Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik) is a book by Gottlob Frege, published in 1884, which investigates the philosophical foundations of arithmetic. Frege refutes other theories of number and develops his own theory of numbers. The Grundlagen also helped to motivate Frege's later works in logicism. The book was not well received and was not read widely when it was published. It did, however, draw the attentions of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who were both heavily influenced by Frege's philosophy. An English translation was published (Oxford, 1950) by J. L. Austin, with a second edition in 1960.[1] Frege objects to any account of mathematics based on psychologism, that is, the view that mathematics and numbers are relative to the subjective thoughts of the people who think of them. According to Frege, psychological accounts appeal to what is subjective, while mathematics is purely objective: mathematics is completely independent from human t

The Foundations of Arithmetic - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Book by Gottlob Frege The Foundations of Arithmetic Title page of the original 1884 edition Author Gottlob Frege Original title Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik. Eine logisch-mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl Translator J. L. Austin Language German Subject Philosophy of mathematics Published 1884 Publication place Germany Pages 119 (original German) ISBN 0810106051 Online Computer Library Center number</span>"}]]}'>OCLC 650 The Foundations of Arithmetic ( German : Die Grundlagen der

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