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What does logicism mean?

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  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that mathematics is a branch of logic in that some or all mathematics is reducible to logic.
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This aim makes Frege the first to fully develop the main thesis of logicism, that mathematics is reducible to logic.
And the irreverence of mere logicism of the Arian mind is always a threat to us enroute.
They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
Of equal significance during this same period was Russell's defence of logicism, the theory that mathematics was in some important sense reducible to logic.
A crucial facet of the problem faced by Bayesian logicism involves how the logic is supposed to apply to scientific contexts where the conclusion sentence is some hypothesis or theory, and the premises are evidence claims.
Tarski also showed new perspectives for logicism by defining logical concepts as invariants under one-to-one transformations.

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