Concept

Primitive notion

Overview

undefined term motivated informally, usually by an appeal to intuition and everyday experience, or introduced axiomatically and eventually generated only by a series of elementary operations

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Primitive notion

• C. I. Lewis
• Alfred Tarski

Related ideas

• World Congress of Philosophy
• Felix Hausdorff
• Self-evidence
• Harvard University Press
• Philosophy
• Intuition
• University of Toronto Press
• The Principles of Mathematics
• Mathematics
• Axiomatic system
• Real number
• Relation (mathematics)
• Peano axioms
• Set (mathematics)
• Set theory
• Infinite regress
• 0
• Formal system
• Bertrand Russell
• Logic
• Philosophy of mathematics
• Oxford University Press
• Alfred Tarski
• Cambridge University Press

Place in the tradition

Part of Logical atomism.

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