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Frege / Joan Weiner.
- Title
- Frege / Joan Weiner.
- Author
- Weiner, Joan.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | B3245.F24 W44 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 149 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "What is the number one? How do we know that 2 + 2 = 4? These apparently simple questions are in fact notoriously difficult to answer, and in one form or other have occupied philosophers from ancient times to the present. Gottlob Frege's conviction that the truths of arithmetic, and mathematics more generally, are derived from self-evident logical truths formed the basis of a systematic project which revolutionized logic, and founded modern analytic philosophy." "In this introduction, Joan Weiner traces the development of Frege's thought from his invention of a powerful new logical language in Begriffsschrift, through his explication of his project in the Foundations of Arithmetic and famous papers such as 'On Sense and Meaning', to the brilliant, but ultimately doomed, presentation of the system in Basic Laws of Arithmetic."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Past masters
- Uniform Title
- Past masters.
- Subject
- Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Life and character -- The project -- Frege's new logic -- Defining the numbers -- The reconception of the logic, I: 'Function and concept' -- The reconception of the logic, II: 'On sense and meaning' ; 'On concept and object' -- Basic laws, the contradiction and its aftermath -- Frege's influence on recent philosophy.
- ISBN
- 0192876953 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^99032366^
- OCLC
- 40800091
- SCSB-11020812
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library