Originally posted by Agathon
Logicism is the thesis that mathematics can be reduced to logic (i.e. at root they are the same thing). The attempt is generally regarded to have failed. IIRC (and this is moving far far away from my area of philosophical competence, so take it with a pinch of salt) you need to supplement it with set theory and maybe some other stuff too.
Logicism is the thesis that mathematics can be reduced to logic (i.e. at root they are the same thing). The attempt is generally regarded to have failed. IIRC (and this is moving far far away from my area of philosophical competence, so take it with a pinch of salt) you need to supplement it with set theory and maybe some other stuff too.
I have nothing against philosophy. It's just not true that it's more rigorous or logical than math.
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