“...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.” MindCommonKnowledgeGenerationsMankindDenyStores Book:Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege Source: Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege
“It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of thought. It only becomes possible at all after the mathematical notation has, as a result of genuine thought, been so developed that it does the thinking for us, so to speak.” ThinkingMindDoeCoursesNamesSpeakResultsKnowledgeFiguresDeserveGenuineMathematicalParrots Book:The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number Source: The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number
