Frege's Logic

Daniel Macbeth

210 pages, parution le 03/08/2005

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Résumé

"For many philosophers, modern philosophy begins in 1879 with the publication of Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift, in which Frege presents the first truly modern logic in his symbolic language, Begriffsschrift, or concept-script. Danielle Macbeth's book, the first full-length study of this language, offers a new reading of Frege's logic based directly on Frege's own two-dimensional notation and his various writings about logic."

Setting out to explain the nature of Frege's logical notation, Macbeth brings clarity not only to Frege's symbolism and its motivation, but also to many other topics central to his philosophy. She develops an account of Frege's Sinn/Bedeutung distinction, a distinction central to an adequate logical language; and she articulates an understanding of concepts, both of what they are and of how their contents are expressed in properly logical language. In her reading, Frege's Begriffsschrift emerges as a powerful and deeply illuminating alternative to the quantificational logic it would later inspire.

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The starting point
Logical generality
A more sophisticated instrument
The work brought to maturity
Courses of values and basic law V

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harvard University Press
Auteur(s)	Daniel Macbeth
Parution	03/08/2005
Nb. de pages	210
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	470g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780674017078
ISBN13	978-0-674-01707-8