The sense of the statement of number
pp. 169-177
Abstract
We now move on to the debate concerning the true subject of the statement of number. It is indicative of conceptual confusion when discord can prevail on this point, and one can hardly believe how far the opinions of philosophers deviate from one another here. J. St. Mill explains: "The numbers are, in the strictest of senses, names of objects. "Two' is certainly a name of the things which are two: two balls, two fingers, and so on."1
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Husserl Edmund (2003) Philosophy of arithmetic: Psychological and Logical investigations with supplementary texts from 1887–1901. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 169-177
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0060-4_10
Full citation:
Husserl Edmund (2003) The sense of the statement of number, In: Philosophy of arithmetic, Dordrecht, Springer, 169–177.