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How does one do justice to what occasions philosophical wonder in us without conferring false sublimity upon it? We said that what occasions Frege’s wonder—the absoluteness of the logical order—seems to him to be such that it cannot possibly be implicated in our dependence upon language: say, in our meaning to assert p in using a proposition to say one thing rather than another, or in our using just these words rather than some others to assert it. The Tractatus (while repudiating Frege’s concep
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― The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
― The Logical Alien: Conant and His Critics
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That’s the rankest psychologism, and was conclusively revealed as hogwash by Gottlob Frege in the 1890s!
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