[lit-ideas] Re: quintessential frege in three quotes--explain why
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 15 Aug 2004 23:33:20 PDT
I wrote:
1. From the preface or the introduction to the Grundgesetze: Frege's report of
his own reaction upon learning from Russell of the paradox of class membership.
The paradox showed that Frege's Rule V was untenable, and his project of
establishing mathematics on a foundation of logic was doomed.
I now realize that this could not be right, for the Grundgesetze was published
in two volumes, and Russell's discovery wasn't acknowledged until Volume II was
about to go to press. So this would be from an appendix or a postscript to it.
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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