Frege's puzzles are puzzles about the semantics of proper names, although related puzzles also arise in the case of indexicals. Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)...
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is known about Frege's family life, however. Though his education and early mathematical work focused primarily on geometry, Frege's work soon turned...
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Analytic philosophy (section Frege)
to Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic and his context principle. Frege's paper "On Sense and Reference" (1892) is seminal, containing Frege's puzzles and...
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evening star identifies the same referent. This example became known as Frege's puzzle and is a central issue in the theory of proper names. Bertrand Russell...
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Sense and reference (category Works by Gottlob Frege)
referent. Much of analytic philosophy is traceable to Frege's philosophy of language. Frege's views on logic (i.e., his idea that some parts of speech...
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responses to the inability of Frege's semantics to deal with context-sensitivity in language. First, in place of Frege's categories of Sinn and Bedeutung...
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associated with both the views of Frege and Russell and both address the general problems (names without bearers, Frege's puzzles concerning identity and substitution...
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and Context principle Descriptivist theory of names Entity realism Frege's puzzle Sense and reference The Meaning of Meaning Severin Schroeder (2006)...
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famous philosophical puzzles, including Frege's puzzle, Kripke's puzzle about so-called de dicto belief, and W. V. O. Quine's puzzle about de re belief...
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The Foundations of Arithmetic (redirect from Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic)
motivate Frege's later works in logicism. The book was also seminal in the philosophy of language. Michael Dummett traces the linguistic turn to Frege's Grundlagen...
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attitude reports in a similar manner. He refers to an example similar to Frege's puzzle about identity: "George IV wondered whether Scott is the author of Waverley...
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Retrieved 31 August 2020. Rupert, Robert D. (2008-03-01). "Frege's puzzle and Frege cases: Defending a quasi-syntactic solution". Cognitive Systems...
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evening star. Although these identity theses give rise to puzzles such as Gottlob Frege's puzzle of the Morning Star and Evening Star, in the scientific...
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George Boolos (category Puzzle designers)
philosopher Gottlob Frege. Boolos proved a conjecture due to Crispin Wright (and also proved, independently, by others), that the system of Frege's Grundgesetze...
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Press Freedom versus license Freethought Frege's Puzzle Frege's theorem Frege-Geach point Frege-Geach problem Frege–Church ontology Freie Arbeiter Stimme...
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Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege associated the number one with the property of being self identical. Frege's paper "On Sense and Reference" begins...
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Ferdinand Ebner Failure to refer Form of life (philosophy) Franz Rosenzweig Frege's Puzzle Friedrich Waismann Function and Concept G. E. M. Anscombe Gareth Evans...
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The barber paradox is a puzzle derived from Russell's paradox. It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes...
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analyticity, Frege concluded that Kant's examples of arithmetical truths are analytical a priori truths and not synthetic a priori truths. Thanks to Frege's logical...
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publishing studies of the work of philosophers such as Frege. His translation (with Peter Geach) of Frege's published philosophical writing is a classic text...
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University Press, 2005). Fiction and Fictionalism (Routledge, 2009). Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them: An Originalist Theory of Concepts (with...
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puzzles, individuals who always lie. Used in scenarios like the island of knights and knaves to explore logical deduction. knights In logic puzzles,...
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symbol ¬ {\displaystyle \neg } appeared in Heyting in 1930 (compare to Frege's symbol ⫟ in his Begriffsschrift); the symbol ∼ {\displaystyle \sim } appeared...
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Kent. Frege's theory would predict that it refers to the name Clark Kent, the sense of the term in the terminology of Frege. Consequently, Frege's theory...
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been introduced in the Begriffsschrift by Gottlob Frege, published in 1879. Peano was unaware of Frege's work and independently recreated his logical apparatus...
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Saul Kripke (section "A Puzzle about Belief")
theory of reference, disputing the descriptivist theory found in Gottlob Frege's concept of sense and Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions. Kripke...
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Sanders Peirce Concept Conceptual model Emergence Engaged theory Gottlob Frege High- and low-level Hypostatic abstraction Inventor's paradox Leaky abstraction...
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Burgess), Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691144016 2013. Saul Kripke: Puzzles and Mysteries ISBN 978-0-7456-5284-9. 2015. Rigor and Structure, Oxford...
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of Gottlob Frege's that had been developed by Bertrand Russell, the descriptivist theory of names, which was sometimes known as the 'Frege–Russell description...
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to ask whether it was worth pursuing. He wrote: I was shown into Frege's study. Frege was a small, neat man with a pointed beard who bounced around the...
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