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Gottlob Frege

Born in Germany in 1848, Gottlob Frege was a mathematician, a logician and a philosopher. He and his work went largely unnoticed (and was sometimes even negatively viewed) by the other intellectuals of his day. It was only after his death in 1925 that the sheer profundity and impact of his writings became truly apparent, especially since they were acknowledged by no less than academic luminaries such as Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Edmund Husserl, all of whom considered his books to be indispensable and a direct influence to their own work.

Despite slow recognition of his work, Frege is now generally regarded to be the father of modern logic as well as the entire tradition of analytic philosophy due to his analysis of language, reference and meaning. In addition, Frege is credited with being the first to develop a systematic quantifier (or predicate) logic. This development arose out of his desire to develop a system of logic that would subsume mathematics.

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Book Resources On Gottlob Frege

The Frege Reader by Michael Beaney (Editor)
The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by Richard L. Mendelsohn

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