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Frege

American

[frey-guh] / ˈfreɪ gə /

noun

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

Frege British

/ 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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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

When philosophers today talk about concepts, they are usually referring to a notion that comes from the work on logic done by German philosopher Gottlob Frege.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I do not mean that the whole programme has been completely executed and that there is nothing for a successor of Frege or Russell to do.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various

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