Derrida and Frege

Paragraph ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-195
Author(s):  
Marian Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Gottlob Frege

Derrida, for reasons which he never made clear publicly, published his mémoire for the diplôme d'études supérieures only in 1990, some thirty-five years after it had been written. Had it been published much earlier, some of the dispiritingly ill-informed remarks about his work might have been avoided. The mémoire, entitled The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, reveals that he is, when required, perfectly able to write a standard thesis in straightforward French. And that, in particular, he is aware of the work of the great logician Gottlob Frege in its relation to Husserl.

Gottlob Frege, One More Time1

Hypatia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
CLAUDE IMBERT
Keyword(s):  
Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Wille
Keyword(s):  
Gottlob Frege

scholarly journals Frege and Wittgenstein: The Limits of the Analytic Style

Elements ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Symbolic Logic ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
German Mathematician ◽  
Broad Application ◽  
Analytic Tradition

The analytic tradition in philosophy stems from the work of German mathematician and logician Gottlob Frege. Bertrand Russell brough Frege's program to render language-particularly scientific language-in formal logical terms to the forefront of philosophy in the early twentieth century. The quest to clarify language and parse out genuine philosophical problems remains a cornerstone of analytic philosophy, but investigative programs involving the broad application of formal symbolic logic to language have largely been abandoned due to the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later work. This article identifies the key philosophical moves that must be performed successfully in order for Frege's "conceptual notation" and other similar systems to adequately capture syntax and semantics. These moves ultimately fail as a result of the nature of linguistic meaning. The shift away from formal logical analysis of language and the emergence of the current analytic style becomes clearer when this failure is examined critically.

Idee und Wahrheit

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-43
Author(s):  
Jan Müller
Keyword(s):  
Gottlob Frege

Jan Müller liest Walter Benjamins sprachtheoretische Schriften als Teil eines zusammenhängenden Problemaufrisses. Er setzt bei der von Benjamin als notwendig unterstellten Idee eines gelingenden Sachbezugs der Sprache an. Dieser müsse einerseits von der Sache selbst her bemessen, andererseits müsse seine wesentlich sprachliche Vermitteltheit mitgedacht werden. Benjamin löse die Spannung zwischen beiden nicht auf, sondern halte sie »als zu einer materialistischen Idee von Sprache dazugehörend« fest. Müller bestimmt in diesem Rahmen zentrale Begriffe Benjamins – wie Darstellung, Idee, Wahrheit und nicht zuletzt den der Sprache selbst – neu und stellt, wo die Sache es erfordert, überraschende Verbindungen zu Zeitgenossen – wie Gottlob Frege – her.

scholarly journals Rewiry metafory. Między ozdobą dyskursu a zwierciadłem duszy

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Popek
Keyword(s):  
Donald Davidson ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Ernst Cassirer ◽  
Rhetorical Tradition ◽  
Complex Sentences ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon ◽  
Rule Out

The purpose of the text is to make some reconnaissance in the area of title "districts of metaphor" (or hunting grounds of metaphor) as well as reference to the unsolvable problems which are implied by a metaphorical mystery of metaphysical expressions. Thy are the order of the day in the main currents of philosophy. Starting from the rhetorical tradition of metaphor (the Aristotelian attempts of definition of metaphor as such) and of terms additional related with it (Max Black), I gradually illustrate what involves its post-rhetorical tradition. I show that philosophical symbolism derives from Aristotle’s hermeneutics, which becomes a gateway for understanding the mystery of metaphor. Like browsing in themselves mirrors, it grows also from simple phrases in complex sentences. In semantic sense, while the symbol has many meanings, the metaphor has a double meaning. It is not however limited by this matter, because in some sense, it has broader content than a symbol, as it introduces into language meanings that in the symbol are only internal (Paul Ricoeur). We also encounter reflective metaphors in our everyday speech and in the attempts of associative penetration into other people's expression. Conceptual decoding of metaphors is common for users of language (George Lakoff, Mark Johnson). On the other hand, there are specific districts of metaphorical expressions, which are reserved for poetic metaphors (Donald Davidson). Noteworthy are also the very unobvious contexts of metaphor in which the authors do not talk about this linguistic phenomenon directly (eg. Gottlob Frege, Ernst Cassirer). Declarative answer to the question whether the metaphor is a simply ornament of discourse or rather a mirror of the soul, is not possible too. Perhaps the metaphor as such includes the both variants. One must consider that being an ornament of speech or writing does not rule out it is also something more than just decoration. It wonders, bothers, disquiet, returning us into our souls. It is also like the unifying soul of all people – in cognitive sense.

scholarly journals Frege y la lógica moderna

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Carlos Alvarado de Pierola
Keyword(s):  
Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege constituye un hito en la historia de la lógica. Matemático de profesión, partiendo de la convicción de que las matemáticas estaban deficientemente fundamentadas, desarrolló su obra en la idea de que la aritmética se reduce a la lógica, construyendo en el camino una nueva disciplina: la lógica matemática. En este campo realizó trascendentales aportes que lo colocan junto al fundador de la ciencia que fundara Aristóteles.

Truth and Meaning

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Segal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Truth Values ◽  
Work Related

This article says something about previous work related to truth and meaning, goes on to discuss Davidson (1967) and related papers of his, and then discusses some issues arising. It begins with the work of Gottlob Frege. Much work in the twentieth century developed Frege's ideas. A great deal of that work continued with the assumption that semantics is fundamentally concerned with the assignments of entities (objects, sets, functions, and truth-values) to expressions. So, for example, those who tried to develop a formal account of sense did so by treating senses as functions of various kinds; the sense of a predicate, for example, was often seen as a function from possible worlds to extensions.

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