
2005.09.17 • 08:42 • 1 com
The guy just wanted a good definition of number, and then that vicious Russell came and destroyed everything.
But anyway, when you check that he started the definition of number by the number zero you see he was insane. This is probably the most difficult one to define.
In it's definition you see the paradox already — at least if you don't give a clear definition of class.
"The class of all objects that aren't equal to themselves"1, this is zero. But then, if this class is equal to itself, it isn't, and if it isn't, it is. Poor Frege. Then Russell suggested that classes are not objects or something like that, and Plato got sad2.
Moral: Logicians are obsessive-compulsive.
But anyway, when you check that he started the definition of number by the number zero you see he was insane. This is probably the most difficult one to define.
In it's definition you see the paradox already — at least if you don't give a clear definition of class.
"The class of all objects that aren't equal to themselves"1, this is zero. But then, if this class is equal to itself, it isn't, and if it isn't, it is. Poor Frege. Then Russell suggested that classes are not objects or something like that, and Plato got sad2.
Moral: Logicians are obsessive-compulsive.
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1. ^ This is maybe Frege's fifth axiom of the Grundegesetze der Arithmetik, but I don't know for sure and will never know probably. I'm still not sure if this has anything to do with the definition of zero in particular.
2. ^ "Oh no! Everything must be a thing!" Poor Plato.
05.09.17 • 11:32
Poor, poor Frege. Have you got around to studying "Function and Concept" and "Sense and Reference" yet? I've taken a look at the former and will take a look today at the latter. But it's all very sad indeed.

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