Gottlob Frege
German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848-1925) · Germany · Academics · Died at 76
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Something wrong?He rewrote the rules of logic itself - the first time anyone had done so since Aristotle - and in the process laid the foundation for analytic philosophy. Most of his colleagues ignored him.
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, Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build arithmetic.
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr.
A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth.
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Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician who taught at the University of Jena from 1848 until his death in 1925. His Begriffsschrift developed modern logic, and his Foundations of Arithmetic became the seminal text of the logicist project - the attempt to ground mathematics in pure logic. In papers like "On Sense and Reference" and "The Thought", he argued for Platonism over psychologism, introduced the distinction between two types of meaning, and advanced descriptivism. Michael Dummett later identified Foundations as the moment philosophy took its linguistic turn. During Frege's lifetime, his work went largely unread; it was Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein who carried it to later generations, where he came to be recognized as one of the most profound philosophers of mathematics ever.
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