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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)

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

From Salon

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

Frege observed that other quantities aren't like this.

From Scientific American

In his work on the foundations of arithmetic, Frege noted that numbers are unique in that they presuppose a way of describing the stuff they quantify.

From Scientific American

This is precisely what we find when we apply Frege's insights.

From Scientific American