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Debating Neo-logicism

In this talk I will discuss some issue having to do with philosophical problems connected to logic and its application to mathematics, both in connection with Frege’s and the neo- Fregeans. I shall have a look at the so-called knowledge-of- sources rationale since it is apparently endorsed by both authorities just mentioned. The knowledge-of-sources rationale is concerned with determining the epistemological source of our arithmetical knowledge. A question arises immediately: are we to distinguish, within the rationale itself, its two prongs: the normative fundationalist project in mathematics and the more factual question of grasp of mathematical knowledge? This is the question that is going to guide the talk.

logicism; knowledge-of-sources rationale; abstraction principle

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