Frege on Number Properties

Studia Logica 96 (2):239-260 (2010)
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In the Grundlagen , Frege offers eight main arguments, together with a series of more minor supporting arguments, against Mill’s view that numbers are “properties of external things”. This paper reviews all eight of these arguments, arguing that none are conclusive

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