ABSTRACT
When the publication of the first volume of the Grundgesetze again met with indifference he began to feel embittered and voiced his bitterness in sharp attacks on those whose views he considered inferior to his own. In 1894 he tore apart Husserl’s Philosophie der Arithmetik. The following year he turned to the critique of Schröder’s main work. In 1896 he unfavorably compared Peano’s logic to his own. And finally in 1899 he published a long satirical piece on the first installment of the new Encyclopedia of the Mathematical Sciences, in which a schoolmaster by the name of Schubert had examined the foundations of arithmetic. Sarcastically Frege congratulated Schubert for having discovered the importance of non-thinking in science.
