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Benacerraf on Logicism

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Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science ((LEUS,volume 28))

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I will be making three distinct but interrelated claims in this paper.

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    Sébastien Gandon

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Gandon, S. (2016). Benacerraf on Logicism. In: Pataut, F. (eds) Truth, Objects, Infinity. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45980-6_6

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