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Frege

American  
[frey-guh] / ˈfreɪ gə /

noun

  1. (Friedrich Ludwig) Gottlob 1848–1925, German mathematician and logician.


Frege British  
/ ˈfreːɡə /

noun

  1. Gottlob . 1848–1925, German logician and philosopher, who laid the foundations of modern formal logic and semantics in his Begriffsschrift (1879)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A couple of decades later, Gottlob Frege with his "Begriffsshrift" and then Bertrand Russell and A.N.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2024

We were at pains to explain that the number sense is sensitive to properties that are unique to number, however—for instance, the description relativity isolated by Gottlob Frege.

From Scientific American Jul. 1, 2023

Frege observed that other quantities aren't like this.

From Scientific American Mar. 7, 2023

Frege modeled his logic on mathematics, with the idea that he could eliminate the ambiguity and vagueness of natural language by translating it into a purely symbolic notation.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

When he first adopted this definition from Frege, he was led to make the inference that the class of all possible classes might furnish a type for a greatest cardinal number.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

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