Wittgenstein's critique of the logicist definition of number in the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"

The goal of this thesis is to present a coherent and exhaustive picture of Wittgenstein's critique of the logicist definition of number as presented by his philosophy of mathematics in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus . It does so by considering several critiques that Wittgenstein makes of th...

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Main Author: Mulvihill, Corey
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27159
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-11944