What sorts of things are numbers? How is it possible to know about them? And how, in knowing about them,do we thereby have knowledge of features of th material world? These questions are almost as old as philosophy itself. In Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects Crispin Wright defends modernised versions of the responses to them of the great German mathamatician and philosopher, Gottlob Frege, who held that numbers are a kind of logical object and that our knowledge about them, and its relevance to the ral world, is to ...
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What sorts of things are numbers? How is it possible to know about them? And how, in knowing about them,do we thereby have knowledge of features of th material world? These questions are almost as old as philosophy itself. In Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects Crispin Wright defends modernised versions of the responses to them of the great German mathamatician and philosopher, Gottlob Frege, who held that numbers are a kind of logical object and that our knowledge about them, and its relevance to the ral world, is to be seen as a product of our faculty of logical thought. Wright's book re-established Frege's programme on the agenda of contemporary philosophy of mathematics, and this revised and augmented second edition will be required reading for all with interesta in th philosophies of mathematics and of language.
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Fair-to-Good; Hardcover, Missing Jacket; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Moderate overall wear to the covers with one small watermark and light marks where the labels were removed; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; Good binding with a straight spine; Good except for the wear to the covers; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); Olive green covers with title in white lettering; 1983, Aberdeen University Press; 224 pages; "Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (Scots Philosophical Monographs), " by Crispin Wrght.