A non-circular concept of number inspired by Gottlob Frege's definition
Gottlob Frege ingeniously presented a purely logical definition of the concept of number. However, one can claim that his definition is, in some way, circular, as it relies on the concept of one-to-one relation. The concept of number only makes sense when it presents the property of projection/refle...
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Zusammenfassung: | Gottlob Frege ingeniously presented a purely logical definition of the
concept of number. However, one can claim that his definition is, in some way,
circular, as it relies on the concept of one-to-one relation. The concept of
number only makes sense when it presents the property of projection/reflection
or binding. When we consider a number as an abstraction of objects, whatever
they may be, saying that a number that belongs to the concept F is the same as
that which belongs to the concept G means there is a projection/reflection, or
binding, between the objects in F and the objects in G. We present a definition
based on both equivalent approaches. First, we introduce the definition based
on the relations of projection and reflection; then, we present the definition
based on the relation of binding. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2406.08715 |