| The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege: An Essay in Ontological Reconstruction 1980 Edition Contributor(s): Kluge, E. H. W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9024724228 ISBN-13: 9789024724222 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 80022755 |
| Series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.34" W x 9.46" (1.28 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Die Sprachen sind nicht nach dem logischen Lineal gemacht. (Briefwechsel, p. 102) If success in solving problems is the hallmark of philosophical great- ness, then Frege was not a great philosopher. But by that same token, very few if any other figure in the history of philosophy will qualify. On the other hand, if the hallmark of philosophical great- ness is the opening up of new conceptual territory and the raising of hitherto unsuspected crucial questions, the shifting of philosophical perspectiv and the determination of subsequent lines of enquiry, then Frege must rank among the greatest philosophers of all times. He was the first to develop a completely formalized language and a logical system sufficiently powerful to generate arithmetic; he opened up the fields of philosophy of logic and arithmetic; his theses on sense reference and definition were seminal to almost all subse- quent work done in the philosophy oflanguage; and his ontological speculations constituted the foundation of one of the most profound metaphysics ever developed: that of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus. |