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In the Grundlagen, Frege offers eight main arguments, together with a series of more minor supporting arguments, against Mill’s view that numbers are “properties of external things”. This paper reviews all eight of these arguments, arguing that none are conclusive.

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    Andrew D. Irvine

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Irvine, A.D. Frege on Number Properties. Stud Logica 96, 239–260 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-010-9285-z

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