Frege’s Notations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 1-14

3. Frege’s Basic Logics (without Wertverläufe)

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 15-61

4. The Ancestral

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 62-83

5. Wertverläufe

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 84-118

6. Analysis and Recomposition

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 119-156

7. Engaging Problems

   • Gregory Landini

   Pages 157-183

8. Back Matter

   Pages 184-194

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A new approach to reading Frege's notations that adheres to the modern view that terms and well-formed formulas are any disjoint syntactic categories. On this new approach, we can at last read Frege's notations in their original form revealing striking new solutions to many of the outstanding problems of interpreting his philosophy.

• composition
• Gottlob Frege
• interpret
• notation
• philosophy
• syntactic

• University of Iowa, USA

  Gregory Landini

GREGORY LANDINI Professor at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of Russell (2010), Wittgenstein's Apprentice with Russell (2007) and Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory (1998). He has published articles in the philosophy of logic and metaphysics. His teaching and research interests include modal logic, the foundations of mathematics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and the history of analytic philosophy.

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