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Frege

[ frey-guh ]

noun

  1. (Friedrich Ludwig) Gott·lob [gawt, -lohp], 1848–1925, German mathematician and logician.


Frege

/ ˈfreːɡə /

noun

  1. FregeGottlob18481925MGermanPHILOSOPHY: logicianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 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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In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Frege begins by logically analyzing what sorts of things numbers are.

I read the works of Gottlieb Frege despite his anti-Semitism.

Frege next asks the question: When do two collections have the same number of terms?

This definition, as Frege (expressing it in slightly different terms) showed, yields the usual arithmetical properties of numbers.

The same afternoon he was taken ill in Madame Frege's house.

That two phrases may have different meanings and the same denotation was discovered by Alice and Frege.

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