Or how numbers are even possible from a philosophical point of view. — Frege and the foundations of arithmetic Frege’s most philosophical work is, arguably, The Foundations of Arithmethic (1884, 1903), which is where he relates his efforts to logicize, or cantorize, arithmetic to the ideas of other important authors such as Mill, Kant, and Leibniz (which is very audacious). Kenny says that before the publication of The Foundations…