Guest Matt Teichman (from the Elucidations podcast) introduces Bergson's essay "An Introduction to Metaphysics." Read more about the topic at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Listen to the episode. Continue Reading …
Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language (Citizens Only)
Discussing Gottlob Frege's "Sense and Reference," "Concept and Object" (both from 1892) and "The Thought" (1918). What is it about sentences that make them true or false? Frege, the father of analytic philosophy who invented modern symbolic logic, attempted to codify language in a way that would make this obvious, which would ground mathematics and science. Applying his Continue Reading …
PREVIEW-Episode 34: Frege on the Logic of Language
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