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  • Frege: The Pure Business of Being True

    Frege by Travis, Charles;

    The Pure Business of Being True

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 10 June 2021

    • ISBN 9780198844129
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 241x163x20 mm
    • Weight 568 g
    • Language English
    • 169

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    Short description:

    This is a book about Frege, his contribution to philosophy in general, thus his claim to be a great philosopher. It concerns truth, thought (the thinkable), logic (the most general structure of truth and falsehood), the relation of logic to what thinkers think, and, to a small extent, the space between the notions human being and rational being.

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    Long description:

    This book is about Gottlob Frege. The guiding thought is that Frege left philosophy a legacy which has been largely ignored, not least of all by his admirers. In order of logical priority, Frege's first concern was to locate the law-like behaviour of truths and falsehoods merely by virtue of their being such (in his terms, the structure of Wahrsein). The just-mentioned legacy lies in his first step towards that goal. It consists in winnowing the 'logical' from the 'psychological', the business of being true as such from that of holding, or holding forth as true-and to keep these separate. A first lesson: what belongs to what is thus abstracted cannot be read directly back into what it was abstracted from. This is what is most widely ignored.

    The book is divided in three parts. The first presents Frege's general picture of the business of being true-of what belongs to the abstraction. The second is primarily concerned with steps Frege takes (in print) between 1891 and 1895, to pave the way for what became, after logic itself, his central project, that whose attempted carrying out is contained in Grundgesetze I. The third part concerns views of logic, truth, the inexorableness of logic, which Frege eventually came to hold, and what it might be to study 'The Mind' as opposed to minds.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    In the Beginning
    Concepts
    Objecthood
    Thought's Publicity
    Bedeutung
    Sinn
    Concept and Object
    Truth
    Logic
    At the Limits: World and Mind Dependence
    Bibliography

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