Frege on the Fruitfulness of Definitions
What, in Frege’s view, makes definitions fruitful? In Grundlagen §70, Frege offers an answer: Unfruitful definitions are definitions that “could just as well be omitted and leave no link missing in the chain of our proofs”. The §70 passage, however, poses an interpretive puzzle as its characterizati...
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| Langue: | English |
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MULPress
2021-12-01
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| Collection: | Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy |
| Accès en ligne: | https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/5031 |