Biographical
Frege, Gottlob (1848–1925)
A German philosopher-mathematician, Gottlob Frege was primarily interested in understanding both the nature of mathematical truths and the means whereby they are ultimately to be justified. In general, ...
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Language, philosophy of
Philosophical interest in language, while ancient and enduring (see Language, ancient philosophy of; Language, medieval theories of; Language, Renaissance philosophy of; Language, early modern philosophy of), has blossomed ...
Thematic
Predication
Some sentences have a very simple structure, consisting only of a part which serves to pick out a particular object and a part which says something about the ...
Thematic
Propositions, sentences and statements
A sentence is a string of words formed according to the syntactic rules of a language. But a sentence has semantic as well as syntactic properties: the words ...
Thematic
Content, indexical
Many of our thoughts are about particular individuals (persons, things, places,…). For example, one can spot a certain Ferrari and think that it is red. What enables this ...
Thematic
Infinitary logics
An infinitary logic arises from ordinary first-order logic when one or more of its finitary properties is allowed to become infinite, for example, by admitting infinitely long formulas ...