Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) 1st Edition by Edward Kanterian (PDF)

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GottlobFrege (1848-1925) was one of the founders of analytical philosophy and thegreatest innovator in logic since Aristotle. He introduced many influentialphilosophical ideas, such as the distinctions between function and argument, orbetween sense and reference. However, his thought is not readily accessible tothe non- expert. His conception of logic, which was crucial to his grandproject, the reduction of arithmetic to logic, is especially difficult tograsp. This book provides a lucid and critical introduction to Frege’s logic,as he developed it in his groundbreaking first book Begriffsschrift (Conceptual Notation, 1879). It guides the readerdirectly to the core of Frege’s philosophy, and to some of the most pertinentissues in contemporary philosophy of language, logic, mathematics, and mind.Unlike most other books, this commentary explains Frege’s own logical notation,allowing students to study and appreciate those aspects of his work that hevalued most but are least understood today.

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⭐As a neophyte regarding the works of Frege, I have several texts, at different levels of complexity, regarding his thoughts. Most take a positive view towards Frege, while not overlooking ambiguities, changes of conceptual ideas etc. Kanterian however, is very negative. This book limits discussion to the Begriffsschrift (and a few later essays) and the author finds fault with Frege’s writings on almost every page. I think his problem is that he doesn’t understand that in creating a symbolic language, Frege’s goal was to move beyond the uncertainties of language, especially the unspoken assumptions and innuendoes. Thus the existence of the ‘judgement stroke’. Thus the ‘horizontal stroke’. The ‘condition stroke’ really gets Kanterian going, criticizing Frege’s use of inference. He does not like the abbreviated method of Frege, which is a little tricky to understand but which, once understood, only serves to shorten the demonstrations. Is there anything good about this book? Yes there is. It was comforting for me to realize that I have, albeit a neophyte, a better understanding of Frege that Kanterian, and he wrote a book about it.

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