For many philosophers, modern philosophy begins in 1879 with the
publication of Gottlob Frege's "Begriffsschrift," in which Frege
presents the first truly modern logic in his symbolic language,
"Begriffsschrift," or concept-script. Danielle Macbeth's book, the
first full-length study of this language, offers a highly original
new reading of Frege's logic based directly on Frege's own
two-dimensional notation and his various writings about logic.
Setting out to explain the nature of Frege's logical notation,
Macbeth brings clarity not only to Frege's symbolism and its
motivation, but also to many other topics central to his
philosophy. She develops a uniquely compelling account of Frege's
"Sinn/Bedeutung" distinction, a distinction central to an adequate
logical language; and she articulates a novel understanding of
concepts, both of what they are and of how their contents are
expressed in properly logical language. In her reading, Frege's
"Begriffsschrift" emerges as a powerful and deeply illuminating
alternative to the quantificational logic it would later
inspire.
The most enlightening examination to date of the developments
of Frege's thinking about his logic, this book introduces a new
kind of logical language, one that promises surprising insight into
a range of issues in metaphysics and epistemology, as well as in
the philosophy of logic.
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