Sunday, April 12, 2020

Updates re "ideas"



[Ernst Schröder] even distinguished a horse, the idea of a horse, the idea of the idea of a horse … and dwelt a little on the concept of a concept.
-- I. Grattan-Guinness, The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 - 1940 (2000), p. 165

[a footnote to this essay:

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For Frege,
In contrast to subjective ‘ideas’ (Vorstellungen), ‘thought’ was intended in an objective sense, rather like state of affairs, sharable among thinkers  and indeed independent of anyone thinking then.
-- I. Grattan-Guinness, The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 - 1940 (2000), p. 190

[a footnote to this essay:

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