Peirce and Frege on Logic
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Though Peirce and Frege played crucial roles in the development of modern logic, there has been so far little scholarly work comparing their positions on the nature of logic. I offer here a comparative study of their views on logic and I show that, although they developed their views independently from each other and with very different projects in mind, their positions are extremely similar (except for a crucial difference). I also show that the comparative study that I present is fruitful insofar as it enables us to solve a controversy concerning whether Peirce endorsed logicism or not.
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