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Frege

American  
[fray-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

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 ● Mar. 7, 2023

Frege observed that other quantities aren't like this.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023

When philosophers today talk about concepts, they are usually referring to a notion that comes from the work on logic done by German philosopher Gottlob Frege.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The young Haupt won the confidence of his principal; and when he wished to establish himself at Zittau, the house of Frege made the needy youth a loan of 10,000 thalers.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

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