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Frege : the pure business of being true / Charles Travis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Charles, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
- Truth.
- Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925.
- Frege, Gottlob.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages).
- Other Title:
- Pure business of being true
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This is a book about Frege, his contribution to philosophy in general, thus his claim to be a great philosopher. It concerns truth, thought (the thinkable), logic (the most general structure of truth and falsehood), the relation of logic to what thinkers think, and, to a small extent, the space between the notions human being and rational being.
- Contents:
- Part I. Framework
- In the beginning (is the thought)
- Concepts
- Objecthood
- Thought's publicity
- Part II. Elaboration
- Bedeutung
- Sinn
- Concept and object
- Part III. Workings
- Truth
- Logic
- The limits of neutrality.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187975-4
- 0-19-258243-7
- OCLC:
- 1255222899
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