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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

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 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

Peano and Frege, who pointed out the error, did so for technical reasons, and applied their logic mainly to technical developments; but the philosophical importance of the advance which they made is impossible to exaggerate.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

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