Frege

[ frey-guh ]

/ ˈfreɪ gə /

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noun

(Friedrich Ludwig) Gott·lob

[gawt-lohp], /ˈgɔt loʊp/, 1848–1925, German mathematician and logician.

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How to use Frege in a sentence

In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Frege begins by logically analyzing what sorts of things numbers are.
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I read the works of Gottlieb Frege despite his anti-Semitism.
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Frege next asks the question: When do two collections have the same number of terms?
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This definition, as Frege (expressing it in slightly different terms) showed, yields the usual arithmetical properties of numbers.
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The same afternoon he was taken ill in Madame Frege's house.
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That two phrases may have different meanings and the same denotation was discovered by Alice and Frege.
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British Dictionary definitions for Frege

Frege

/ (German ˈfreːɡə) /

noun

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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