Frege and the Fundamental Abstraction


Hutchinson J.
February 2024Cambridge University Press

Canadian Journal of Philosophy
2024#54Issue 274 - 82 pp.

According to Charles Travis, Frege’s principle to “always to sharply separate the psychological from the logical, the subjective from the objective” involves a move called “the fundamental abstraction.” I try to explain what this abstraction is and why it is interesting. I then raise a problem for it, and describe what I think is a better way to understand Frege’s principle.

Abstraction , Frege , Logic , Metaphysics , Psychology , Travis

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Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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