Definition of "logicist" [logicist]

• An adherent of logicism. (noun)

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• "Similarly, a significant part of Frege's logicist project consists of the careful analysis of such arithmetical notions as zero and successor, analysis which brings out previously-unnoticed complexity, and facilitates the proof of arithmetical truths."
• "Russell seems to have been inspired by the logicist project of finding definitions and elementary premises from which mathematical statements could be proved."
• "What happens in Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?, in connection with Dedekind's logicist treatment of the natural numbers, is that this adoption of set-theoretic techniques is raised to a new level of clarity and explicitness."