The Foundations of Arithmetic
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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 idealist and materialist theories of number and develops his own platonist theory of numbers. The Grundlagen also helped to motivate Frege's later works in logicism.
Author | Gottlob Frege |
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Original title | Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik. Eine logisch-mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl |
Translator | J. L. Austin |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Subject | Philosophy of mathematics |
Published | 1884 |
Pages | 119 (original German) |
ISBN | 0810106051 |
OCLC | 650 |
The book was also seminal in the philosophy of language. Michael Dummett traces the linguistic turn to Frege's Grundlagen and his context principle.
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]