Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)
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Frege basically invented modern logic and the philosophy of language, but spent his career at an obscure German university getting largely ignored until Bertrand Russell decided to champion his work decades later.
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Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Jena, and is understood by many to be the father of analytic philosophy, concentrating on the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Though he was largely ignored during his lifetime, Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), and, to some extent, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) introduced his work to later generations of philosophers. Frege is widely considered to be one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most…
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