[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:
~
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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