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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823701903321

Titolo

Essays on Frege's conception of truth [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dirk Greimann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

94-012-0402-0

1-4356-1256-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Grazer philosophische Studien, , 0165-9227 ; ; v. 75

Altri autori (Persone)

GreimannDirk

Disciplina

146/.4

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Semantics (Philosophy)

Truth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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