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    Begriffsschrift (German for, roughly, "concept-writing") is a book on logic by Gottlob Frege, published in 1879, and the formal system set out in that...
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    His contributions include the development of modern logic in the Begriffsschrift and work in the foundations of mathematics. His book the Foundations...
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    metamathematical reflection began with the work of Gottlob Frege, especially his Begriffsschrift, published in 1879. David Hilbert was the first to invoke the term...
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  • things as may fairly find a place in ordinary Logic". Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift (1879) preceded Giuseppe Peano (1889), but Peano had no knowledge of...
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    predicate logic following the work of Gottlob Frege, in particular his Begriffsschrift (Concept Script; 1879). Syllogism, being a method of valid logical...
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    } appeared in Heyting in 1930 (compare to Frege's symbol ⫟ in his Begriffsschrift); the symbol ∼ {\displaystyle \sim } appeared in Russell in 1908; an...
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  • the development of modern logic and formalised mathematics. Frege's Begriffsschrift (1879) introduced both a complete propositional calculus and what is...
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  • announced the discovery to Gottlob Frege of the paradox in Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift and framed the problem in terms of both logic and set theory, and in...
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  • treating Begriffsschrift (Frege's logic) as a notational variant of quantificational logic, Macbeth proposes that reasoning in Begriffsschrift is more...
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  • cardinal numbers (because they are all well-orderable in that case). Begriffsschrift contains an early formulation of the law of trichotomy Dichotomy Law...
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