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Frege's Functional Framework| old_uid | 8222 |
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| title | Frege's Functional Framework |
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| start_date | 2010/02/22 |
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| schedule | 17h30-19h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | bat. Condorce, site Rive gauche |
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| summary | Frege's Begriffsschrift of 1879 inaugurated the age of modern logic. In that work Frege created quantificational theory, integrating the two traditional parts of logic, syllogistic theory and propositional logic, into one, far more powerful system. Central to his new logic was the employment of function-argument analysis, extended from its use in mathematics, and his philosophy essentially developed by thinking through the implications of this employment and attempting to justify it. Many of Frege's characteristic doctrines flow from this - most notably, his construal of concepts as functions, his distinction between function and object, his understanding of existential and number statements as assertions about concepts, and his conception of the Bedeutung of a sentence as a truth-value. In this talk I explain the emergence of these and other doctrines as Frege reflected on his functional framework. |
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| responsibles | Pataut, Dubucs, Panza |
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