Gottlob Frege made seminal contributions to the philosophy of language and of mathematics, yet his major intellectual project ran aground as it was in the last stages of being launched. He worked in a fairly narrow area of mathematics throughout his...

The German mathematician and philosopher Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the founder of modern mathematical logic. His work was almost wholly ignored during his lifetime but now exerts a great influence on the philosophy of logic and language....

1848-1925 German Mmathematician and Philosopher Gottlob Frege, a philosopher of mathematics and a mathematician in the realm of philosophy, was the founder of modern mathematical logic and one of the most important figures in the histories of logic,...

. 1848–1925. German mathematical logician who was born in Wismar and worked in Jena. His work on the foundations of MATHEMATICS, which he hoped to derive from pure logic, was seriously interrupted when he was told of RUSSELL’S PARADOX by...

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Modern Logic: from Frege to GÖdel From Frege to GÖdel Twentieth-century logic, and even late nineteenth-century logic, cannot be properly understood without some acquaintance not only with earlier nineteenth-century logic but also with...

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0521836697 The philosophy of Gottlob Frege. Mendelsohn, Richard L. Cambridge U. Pr. 2005 226 pages $75.00 Hardcover B3245 Mendelsohn (City U. of New York) examines Frege's views on language and metaphysics in the essay...

Frege and Heidegger appear to lie at opposite extremes of the philosophical spectrum, especially in their attitudes toward logic. For Frege, logic lays out the principles that govern any investigation whatsoever. By contrast, in "What is Metaphysics?" and related writings, Heidegger seems to...