Arithmetic has began to totter. - Gottlob Frege

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You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you. You got to fight them for yourself. I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Gottlob Frege

Arithmetic has began to totter.

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Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

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'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

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. . . one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

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The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

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