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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)

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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

Frege observed that other quantities aren't like this.

From Scientific American Mar. 7, 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

Following Frege, we can break sentences into parts, including names, or object identifiers, and concepts, or predicates.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

Of other works dealing with the subject, the finest from the strictly philosophical point of view is probably that of Professor G. Frege on The Fundamental Laws of Arithmetic.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

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