Frege

[frey-guh]

noun

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

Frege

/ ˈfreːɡə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Frege observed that other quantities aren't like this.

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