Essays on Frege's conception of truth / edited by Dirk Greimann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greimann, Dirk.

Series:

Grazer philosophische Studien ; v. 75.

Grazer philosophische Studien, 0165-9227 ; v. 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analysis (Philosophy).

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Truth.

Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925--Criticism and interpretation.

Frege, Gottlob.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his writings on the foundations of logic, Gottlob Frege, the father of modern logic, sketched a conception of truth that focuses on the following questions: What is the sense of the word "true"? Is truth a definable concept or a primitive one? What are the kinds of things of which truth is predicated? What is the role of the concept of truth in judgment, assertion and recognition? What is the logical category of truth? What is the significance of the concept of truth for science in general and for logic in particular?The present volume is dedicated to the interpretation, reconstruction and

Contents:

Essays on Frege's Conception of Truth; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; TRUTH AND THE IMPERFECTION OF LANGUAGE; FREGE AND SEMANTICS; STRIVING FOR TRUTH IN THE PRACTICE OF MATHEMATICS: KANT AND FREGE1; FREGE'S USE OF FUNCTION-ARGUMENT ANALYSIS AND HIS INTRODUCTION OF TRUTH-VALUES AS OBJECTS; DID FREGE REALLY CONSIDER TRUTH AS AN OBJECT?; FREGE ON TRUTH, JUDGMENT, AND OBJECTIVITY; EVIDENCE, JUDGMENT AND TRUTH; THE TRUTH OF THOUGHTS: VARIATIONS ON FREGEAN THEMES; FREGEAN PROPOSITIONS, BELIEF PRESERVATION AND COGNITIVE VALUE; JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0402-0

1-4356-1256-6

OCLC:

714567291