..., generality, sentence, and thought. He, thereby, surrenders their shared ideal of the clarity a Begriffsschrift could bring to philosophy. The development of early analytic philosophy thus evinces far less continuity than some readers of Wittgenstein, from Russell and the Vienna positivists to many...

...0 04 04 2025 This chapter collects Frege’s main texts on identity in amended translations. “On sense and reference” Begriffsschrift §8 equality of content identity Frege Equality of content ²⁰² §8 Equality of content differs from conditionality and negation...

... are not compatible with ordinary quantification over objects are shown to be baseless. Begriffsschrift identity quantification truth conditions first-order predicate logic co-reference In §8 of CS, Frege tells us that, for any names and , what the object-language sentence consisting...

...This chapter considers Gottlob Frege as the founder of contemporary logic through his little book Begriffsschrift that came out in 1879. The name stands for something like “writing for concepts,” in the sense of a notation, and there is a long subtitle that specifies the notation...

..., and on the other, sense (Sinn) and signification (Bedeutung). Frege achieves thereby an essentially new, post-Kantian conception of concepts and a radically new understanding of the nature and functioning of language. His language Begriffsschrift was designed...

... of the adequacy of the conceptual analyses is emphasized, and Frege’s view of that adequacy is explored in a preliminary way by looking carefully at a selection of Frege’s analyses in Begriffsschrift, Grundlagen, and Grundgesetze. Some of the difficulties...

...This chapter discusses the methodology that guided logico-linguistic analysis from Gottlob Frege’s 1879 Begriffsschrift to Rudolf Carnap’s 1934 The Logical Syntax of Language. In the first four decades of this period, culminating with Bertrand Russell’s 1918–19...

...0 04 04 2025 In this chapter, we provide an overview of Part II of the book and explain its relation to Part I. identity concepts quantification fine structure Begriffsschrift identity arity In this part of the book, we will primarily be concerned with systematic questions...

... The Age of Innocence, which Weiner takes as a model of how changes in attitude, not reducible to changes in beliefs expressible in begriffsschrift, can be objectively effected. Diamond Cora Frege Gottlob Ricketts Thomas Wittgenstein Ludwig analysis logical form Russell...

... A speculative investigation of how Frege’s logical views change between Begriffsschrift and Grundgesetze der Arithmetik and how this might have affected the formal development of logicism. Begriffsschrift logical language Begriffsschrift monograph Booleanism Boolos George...

... with which Frege operates in 1879, in Begriffsschrift, is rather different from what we find in Grundgesetze in 1893. The evolution of Frege’s mature conception begins soon after the publication of the former volume, and is largely in place by 1882. What drives...

...In the Begriffsschrift, Frege held that identity is a relation between names, to wit, the relation of co-reference. The verdict of Frege scholarship on this conception of identity has not been favorable, to say the least; indeed, commentators including Alonzo Church, Michael...

..., generality, sentence, and thought. He thereby surrenders their shared ideal of the clarity a begriffsschrift could bring to philosophy. The development of early analytic philosophy thus evinces far less continuity than some readers of Wittgenstein, from Russell and the Vienna positivists...