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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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But at least it's better than formalism, logicism, intuitionism, constructivism or Platonism.
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.
Tarski also showed new perspectives for logicism by defining logical concepts as invariants under one-to-one transformations.
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.
And the irreverence of mere logicism of the Arian mind is always a threat to us enroute.
There was thus an affinity between logical positivism and logicism.

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