@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Waismann,Friedrich},
subject = {Ultimate Justification},
note = {I 50
Ultimate justification/foundation/Mathematics/Waismann:
The question of the last anchorage has not been solved with these researches, but merely pushed back further. A justification is unsuitable with the help of arithmetic; we have already reached the last clues of the arithmetic deduction. But such a possibility seems to arise when one looks beyond arithmetic: this leads to the third standpoint.
>Foundation.
Arithmetic/Waismann: is based on logic. In doing so, one makes strong use of terms of the set theory, or the class calculus. The assertion that mathematics is only a >"part of logic" includes two theses, which are not always clearly separated:
A) The basic concepts of arithmetic can be traced back to purely logical ones by definition
B) The principles of arithmetic can be deduced from evidence from purely logical propositions.
>Logic, >Proof, >Empiricism.
I 51
It looks like the sets of logic are tautologies. (Wittgenstein in 1921 introduced the concept of tautology).
>Tautology.
WaismannVsFrege: Frege was completely lacking the insight that the whole logic becomes meaningless, because he did not understand the nature of logic at all.
In Frege's opinion, logic should be a descriptive science, such as mechanics. And to the question of what it describes, he replied: the relations between ideal objects, such as "and", "or", "if", etc.
Platonic conception of a realm of uncreated structures.
>Platonism, >G. Frege.},
note = { Waismann I F. Waismann Einführung in das mathematische Denken Darmstadt 1996 Waismann II F. Waismann Logik, Sprache, Philosophie Stuttgart 1976
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