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
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
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
A Proponent of Logicism: Who is Gottlob Frege? - TheCollector Gottlob Frege is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 200 years He was a logician, a mathematician, and an all-around genius who proposed important theories on the nature of language, meaning, reference, and the relationship between mathematics and logic
Freges Contribution to Philosophy of Language miliar today are Frege’s dual notions of scope and binding and how they are used to represent generality Indeed, one would be hard pressed to challenge the claim that it is Frege’s conception of logical form that constitutes his most significant contribution to the study of language
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege - Stanford University Frege virtually founded the modern discipline of mathematical logic He developed a system of conceptual notation (inspired by Leibniz's conception of a rational calculus), and though we no longer use his notation, his system constituted the first predicate calculus
FREGE: A PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY - Cambridge University Press Assessment Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas
Gottlob Frege | Encyclopedia. com Although a mathematician, Gottlob Frege is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern (analytical) philosophy With his Begriffsschrift (concept script) of 1879 he created modern mathematical logic He used it as a linguistic tool for a program of founding mathematical concepts exclusively on logical concepts (logicism)
Philosophy of language - Freges Revolution, Semantics, Pragmatics . . . Locke’s emphasis on individual words, as well as the foundational role he assigned to psychology, were attacked by the German logician Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), who is generally regarded as the father of modern philosophy of language