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Frege was not particularly interested in mereology. This is due to his conviction that numbers cannot be applied to wholes or aggregates, but only to concepts and their extensions (classes). But, interestingly, Frege explained in a letter to P. Jourdain from 23.09.1902 that he was interested in the difference between wholes and classes at the time he worked on the
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