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The 29 pages that link to Gottlob Frege, each with the reason it gives.

• Analytic philosophyRelated: His logic and theory of sense helped make precise analysis a philosophical method.

• Bertrand RussellRelated: Russell’s paradox revealed a contradiction in Frege’s foundational system.

• Propositional logicRelated: Frege’s symbolic notation and proof methods transformed mathematical logic.

• Classical logicRelated: His Begriffsschrift introduced a powerful notation for quantified classical reasoning.

• Ludwig WittgensteinRelated: Frege’s logical innovations formed part of the intellectual background Wittgenstein entered.

• Russell's paradoxRelated: Russell's discovery exposed a contradiction in Frege's foundational system.

• SemanticsRelated: His distinction between sense and reference remains central to analyses of linguistic meaning.

• ConsistencyRelated: The paradox exposed inconsistency in a foundational system and sharpened the problem.

• Mathematical logicRelated: His Begriffsschrift helped establish modern formal logic.

• Norbert WienerRelated: Wiener studied Frege’s logic during his early philosophical and mathematical training.

• Formal logicRelated: His work introduced a powerful quantified notation that shaped modern logic.

• Analytic–synthetic distinctionRelated: Frege argued that arithmetic truths are analytic, opposing Kant’s account.

• Philosophy of languageRelated: His account of sense and reference set enduring terms for debates about meaning.

• Modus tollensRelated: Frege’s formal notation helped make logical inference rules precise and compositional.

• LogicismRelated: His work established the first systematic logicist foundation for arithmetic.

• LogicRelated: Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift transformed formal analysis of quantification and inference.

• Saul KripkeCompared with: Kripke’s anti-descriptivist account of names rejects a central Fregean route from sense to reference.

• Logical validityRelated: His formal logic made validity analyzable through quantifiers and symbolic structure.

• History of logicRelated: His 1879 Begriffsschrift introduced a powerful formal language for mathematical reasoning.

• PsychologismRelated: Frege made a decisive case against grounding logical laws in mental processes.

• Symbolic logicRelated: His Begriffsschrift introduced a powerful notation for quantified logical relations.

• Logical atomismRelated: Frege’s logic supplied tools and problems that shaped Russell’s atomist analysis.

• Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusRelated: Frege’s logic provided a major framework Wittgenstein transformed.

• PlatonismRelated: Frege's account of numbers as objective objects helped shape modern mathematical realism.

• Platonic realismRelated: His account of thoughts and meanings as objective, non-mental entities echoes Platonic commitments.

• Frege's theoremRelated: Frege formulated the abstraction-based route to arithmetic associated with the theorem.

• Jaakko HintikkaRelated: Hintikka’s studies of quantification and language engaged deeply with Frege’s logical legacy.

• Mind (philosophy journal)Related: Frege’s 1892 essay “On Sense and Reference” appeared in Mind.

• Philosophical logicRelated: His formal language transformed the analysis of quantification, identity, and existence.