Gottlob Frege - Wikipedia
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (/ ˈ f r eɪ ɡ ə /; [7] German: [ˈɡɔtloːp ˈfreːɡə]; 8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.
Gottlob Frege - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b. 1848, d. 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who worked at the University of Jena. Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first ‘predicate calculus’.
Sense and reference - Wikipedia
In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an idea of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892 (in his paper " On Sense and Reference "; German: "Über Sinn und Bedeutung"), [1] reflecting the two ways he believed a singular term may have meaning.
Frege, Gottlob | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Gottlob Frege was a German logician, mathematician and philosopher who played a crucial role in the emergence of modern logic and analytic philosophy. Frege’s logical works were revolutionary, and are often taken to represent the fundamental break between contemporary approaches and the older, Aristotelian tradition.
Gottlob Frege | German Logician, Mathematician & Philosopher - Britannica
Gottlob Frege (born November 8, 1848, Wismar, Mecklenburg-Schwerin—died July 26, 1925, Bad Kleinen, Germany) was a German mathematician and logician, who founded modern mathematical logic.
Frege’s Logic - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (b. 1848, d. 1925) is often credited with inventing modern quantificational logic in his Begriffsschrift.
Frege: ON SENSE AND REFERENCE - UCSC
GOTTLOB FREGE [As reprinted in A.W. Moore (ed.) Meaning and Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press.] Equality [1] gives rise to challenging questions which are not altogether easy to answer. Is it a relation? A relation between objects, or between names or signs of objects? In my Begriffsschrift [2] I assumed the latter.
The Composition of Thoughts - frege.org
Among the many innovations that mark Frege’s Begriffsschrift as a revolution-ary work, perhaps the most important is its presentation of the first formal system of logic. Frege believed that the introduction of a new notation, especially for the expression of generality, was necessary if the logical relationships between con-
Frege, Gottlob: Language - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is most celebrated today for his contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. The first section below considers why a philosophical investigation of language mattered at all for Frege, the mathematician, and why it should have mattered to him.
Truth in Frege
Frege’s arguments for the truth of Law I (Gg, v. I, §18) and for the validity of modus ponens (Gg, v. I, §14) appeal directly, and only, to that clause. For Frege, then, truth is the most fundamental notion for both logic and semantics. This doctrine surfaces most directly in Frege’s distinctive,
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