Ideas from 'Begriffsschrift' by Gottlob Frege [1879], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Translations from the Writings of Gottlob Frege' by Frege,Gottlob (ed/tr Geach,P/Black,M) [Blackwell 1980,0-631-12911-1]].

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis

22270

Frege changed philosophy by extending logic's ability to check the grounds of thinking [Potter]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

8939	We should not describe human laws of thought, but how to correctly track truth [Fisher]

4. Formal Logic / C. Predicate Calculus PC / 1. Predicate Calculus PC

4971	I don't use 'subject' and 'predicate' in my way of representing a judgement

4. Formal Logic / C. Predicate Calculus PC / 2. Tools of Predicate Calculus / d. Universal quantifier ∀

17745

For Frege, 'All A's are B's' means that the concept A implies the concept B [Walicki]

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 1. Overview of Logic

7728	Frege has a judgement stroke (vertical, asserting or judging) and a content stroke (horizontal, expressing) [Weiner]

16881

The laws of logic are boundless, so we want the few whose power contains the others

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic

7622	In 1879 Frege developed second order logic [Putnam]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7729	Frege replaced Aristotle's subject/predicate form with function/argument form [Weiner]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

9950	A quantifier is a second-level predicate (which explains how it contributes to truth-conditions) [George/Velleman]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

9991	For Frege the variable ranges over all objects [Tait]

10536

Frege's domain for variables is all objects, but modern interpretations first fix the domain [Dummett]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 3. Objectual Quantification

7730	Frege introduced quantifiers for generality [Weiner]

7742	Frege reduced most quantifiers to 'everything' combined with 'not' [McCullogh]

5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 1. Proof Systems

13824

Proof theory began with Frege's definition of derivability [Prawitz]

5. Theory of Logic / H. Proof Systems / 2. Axiomatic Proof

13609

Frege produced axioms for logic, though that does not now seem the natural basis for logic [Kaplan]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / f. Mathematical induction

17855

It may be possible to define induction in terms of the ancestral relation [Wright,C]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 6. Logicism / b. Type theory

10607

Frege's logic has a hierarchy of object, property, property-of-property etc. [Smith,P]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence

11008

Existence is not a first-order property, but the instantiation of a property [Read]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

22280

Frege's account was top-down and decompositional, not bottom-up and compositional [Potter]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

7741	The predicate 'exists' is actually a natural language expression for a quantifier [Weiner]