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The logicism of Frege, which undoubtedly was inspired to a great extent by the platonism of his master, H. Lotze, is not so much a new system of speculative philosophy as a specific theory concerned with the foundations of pure mathematics. It is directed against all sorts of other doctrines that I shall summarize under three heads: empiricism, formalism and intuitionism.
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Beth, E.W. (1965). The Foundations of Arithmetic. In: Mathematical Thought. Synthese Library, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2207-0_3
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