By Godehard Link
The essays amassed during this quantity specialise in the position of formalist facets in mathematical theorizing and perform, analyzing concerns resembling infinity, finiteness, and evidence systems, in addition to significant historic figures within the box, together with Frege, Russell, Hilbert and Wittgenstein. utilizing sleek logico-philosophical instruments and systematic conceptual and logical analyses, the quantity offers a radical, updated account of the topic.
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I presume that Kant uses the terms “source of knowledge [cognition]” and “faculty of knowledge [cognition]” largely in the same sense. According to him, there are basically two sources or faculties of knowledge, a lower one, namely sense, and a higher one, which is understanding, taken in a comprehensive sense. Understanding, conceived of in this wider sense, comprises both the power of judgement and reason. On the face of it, Frege’s logical source of knowledge bears a notable similarity to Kant’s source or faculty of knowledge of the understanding.
In the senses there is no judgement at all, neither a true nor a false one. Now because we have no other sources of cognition [Erkenntnisquellen] besides these two, it follows that error is effected only through the unnoticed influence of sensibility on understanding, through which it happens that the subjective grounds of the judgement join with the objective ones, and make the latter dedeductive proof, is supposed to rest. It seems, however, that if there were no such truths, epistemology, as characterized by Frege, would lack a proper domain of investigation.
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