Optics of thought: Logic and vision in Müller, Helmholtz, and Frege (Q1860972)
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Optics of thought: Logic and vision in Müller, Helmholtz, and Frege (English)
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4 March 2004
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In his writings on logic and the philosophy of mathematics Frege sometimes drew upon similes and metaphors from optics. The author argues that he was knowingly drawing upon a tradition of his time in which logic and optics intersected over questions such as (non-)sensory sources of knowledge. He outlines some of the theories proposed by H. von Helmholtz and Johannes Mueller. A nice footnote about the optician Ernst Abbe, who had supervised Frege's second doctorate, does not tie in with its text on p. 366.
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optics
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H. von Helmholtz
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G. Frege
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