However, for the purposes of this introduction to Frege’s work, there are prior questions on which it is more important to focus. Whereas Frege thought that the truths of arithmetic are derivable from analytic truths of logic, Kant thought arithmetic principles are synthetic, in which case they wouldn’t be derivable from analytic truths.  Their different conceptions of logic helps to explain why these two philosophers came to such different conclusions. In this section, we therefore turn to the following questions: