Frege, Hankel, and Formalism in the Foundations

Frege says, at the end of a discussion of formalism in the Foundations of Arithmetic, that his own foundational program “could be called formal” but is “completely different” from the view he has just criticized. This essay examines Frege’s relationship to Hermann Hankel, his main formalist interloc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Richard Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MULPress 2021-12-01
Series:Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Online Access:https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/5007