In The Foundations of Arithmetic and The Basic Laws of Arithmetic, Frege held the view that number-terms refer to objects. Later in his life, however, he seems to have been open to other possibilities
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Rayo, A. (2007). Frege’s Unofficial Arithmetic. In: Cook, R.T. (eds) The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4265-2_10
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