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Frege

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Frege
Gottlob. 1848--1925, German logician and philosopher, who laid the foundations of modern formal logic and semantics in his Begriffsschrift (1879)


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Frege ridiculed the formalist conception of mathematics by saying that the formalists confused the unimportant thing, the sign, with the important, the meaning.
King finds her most conclusive support for this impulse not in the pages of critical journals, but instead in the theoretical writings on referential onomastics by Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Saul Kripke.
It would have been enlightening had Welchman brought the logician Gottlob Frege into the discussion.
 
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