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history of mathematics
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logic
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analytic truth
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number as a progression for counting and 1-1 relations
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formalism
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natural language as a system
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mathematics as a formal system
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function
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meaning by language as a whole
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grammar
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natural language as communication
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sentences, propositions, and truth
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parameters
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change
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fundamental concepts such as type, attributes, relationships are all the same
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rules
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what is truth
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number as the extension of a class of equinumerous classes

Reference

Frege, G., Begriffschrift, a formula language, modeled upon that of arithmetic, for pure thought, Halle, 1879. Google

Other Reference

p. 5-82 in J. van Heijenoort, From Frege to Godel, Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967, translated by Stefan Bauer- Mengelberg

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3 ;;Quote: Begriffschrift introduced truth-functional propositional calculus, functions instead of subject/predicate, quantification, derivational forms, and a definition of sequence
5 ;;Quote: to see if arithmetic was analytic, Frege reduced ordering in a sequence (number) to logical consequences from the laws of thought
5+;;Quote: Frege developed concept writing to prevent gaps in a chain of inferences; found that language and intuition were inadequate
6 ;;Quote: Frege's ideography will unify the formula languages and extend them to new fields
6+;;Quote: the signs of arithmetic, geometry, and chemistry realized Leibniz's idea of a universal characteristic; the original idea was too gigantic
7 ;;Quote: replace the concepts of subject and predicate with argument and function respectively
7+;;Quote: the meanings of words such as if, and, not, or, all, etc. are connected
12 ;;Quote: when the consequences of two judgments are the same, their conceptual content is what is the same in both
12 ;;Quote: Frege does not use subject/predicate because it is part of the interaction between speaker and listener
12+;;Quote: Frege only considers that which influences the consequences of a judgment, i.e., its affirmation or denial
13 ;;Quote: concept writing provides symbols for implication and negation
15 ;;Quote: concept writing has a format for representing a derivation; e.g., (B->A and B) implies A
17 ;;Quote: Frege only uses detachment to infer consequences; other modes of inference are equivalent
21 ;;Quote: represent what does not change by a function and represent what changes by the function's arguments
22 ;;Quote: the distinction between function and argument is arbitrary
23 ;;Quote: use function notation to indicate a property of an object, a result of a procedure, or a relationship between objects
24 ;;Quote: the function of an argument can itself be regarded as an argument; more general than the concept of function in analysis
24 ;;Quote: universal qualification by indicating that a function is a fact for any replacement of a sign
25 ;;Quote: universal qualification needs to specify its scope
27 ;;Quote: form existential qualification out of negation and universal qualification
28 ;;Quote: need a meta language for an ideography in order to define its basis
28 ;;Quote: a small number of laws and rules can include the content of all the laws, albeit in an undeveloped state
28+;;Quote: derive complex judgments from simpler ones; clarifies relationships
29 ;;Quote: since the number of laws is boundless, need to find a basic set of laws that generates the rest; not unique
29 ;;Quote: two of Frege's basic laws are excluded middle and reduction of implication; substitution rules are unstated
50 ;;Quote: Frege's rule V allows substitution of equivalents
55 ;;Quote: by pure thought can derive propositions about sequences that far surpass in generality those derived by intuition or the senses
55 ;;Quote: use definitions to simplify a derivation; does not change the content of a proposition
57 ;;Quote: Frege defines sequence through hereditary properties that hold for all remaining elements of a sequence


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