Being true is different from being taken as true, whether by one or by many or everybody, and in no case is it to be reduced to it. There is no contradiction in something’s being true which everybody takes to be false.
Gottlob Frege, Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (The Foundations of Arithmetic (vol. 1, 1893; vol. 2, 1903), Introduction, Montgomery Furth, translator (1964).
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