Frege

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname

Gottlob Frege, a German mathematician and philosopher.

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Examples

1924 diary Frege's published philosophical writings were of a very technical nature and divorced from practical issues, so much so that Frege scholar Dummett expresses his "shock to discover, while reading Frege's diary, that his hero was an anti-Semite." Source: Internet

Abbe was more than a teacher to Frege: he was a trusted friend, and, as director of the optical manufacturer Carl Zeiss AG, he was in a position to advance Frege's career. Source: Internet

According to Frege the reference of a sentence is a truth value; for Husserl it is a "state of affairs." Source: Internet

As a philosopher of mathematics, Frege attacked the psychologistic appeal to mental explanations of the content of judgment of the meaning of sentences. Source: Internet

Consequently, Frege and Husserl independently elaborated a theory of sense and reference before 1891. Source: Internet

Contrary to what Frege states, in Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic we already find two different kinds of representations: subjective and objective. Source: Internet

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