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Definition of Logicism
1. Noun. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all of mathematics can be derived from formal logic.
Definition of Logicism
1. Noun. (philosophy) The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic. ¹
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Definition of Logicism
1. Frege's theory on mathematics [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Logicism
Literary usage of Logicism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Basic Outline of Universology: An Introduction to the Newly Discovered by Stephen Pearl Andrews (1872)
"821; and logicism; Ends of the Egg, t. 991, p. 578; yields to logicism, 1.1117, p.
635; blends and harmonizes with logicism, c. 2, t. 1119, p. 687 ; a. ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"Accordingly this type of metaphysics has been called " logicism " * ; we may
describe it as " Dialectical Logic." Associated with this metaphysical view ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"He tells us in 1869 (Kleine Schriften, iii., 407) that he deliberately turned
his back upon associationism in order to make his experiment in logicism. ..."
4. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"It is, in every respect, the antipode of Hegelian philosophy, and, provoked by
the logicism of its powerful rival, affects to ignore the monistic tendency. ..."
5. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1896)
"It is, in every respect, the anti}>ode of Hegelian philosophy, and, provoked by
the logicism of its powerful rival, affects to ignore the monistic tendency. ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1892)
"logicism has caused much evil in our country. Let us now beware of mysticism!
* * * One of the most curious episodes of this new mysticism is assuredly the ..."
7. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"... to regard the world as a fulness, exhibiting contradictions and antinomies
only in the human spirit. In this way one-sided logicism is overthrown. ..."
8. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... but varying with the particular writer's views of philosophy, from the Positivism
of the French ENCYCLOPEDISTS (q. v Л to the logicism of the ..."
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