The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege
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978-0-511-10977-5
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2005
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loginThis book is an analysis of Frege’s views on language and metaphysicsraised in “On Sense and Reference,” arguably one of the most impor-tant philosophical essays of the past hundred years. It provides a thor-ough introduction to the function/argument analysis and appliesFrege’s technique to the central notions of predication, identity, exis-tence, and truth. Of particular interest is the analysis of the Paradoxof Identity and a discussion of three solutions: the little-knownBegriffsschriftsolution, the sense/reference solution, and Russell’s“On Denoting” solution. Russell’s views wend their way through thework, serving as a foil to Frege. Appendixes give the proofs of the firstsixty-eight propositions ofBegriffsschriftin modern notation.
