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...learned part of the answer almost two years ago, when I took a course on Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein. These are perhaps the three philosophers most useless for the task of social change; revolutionaries seek thrilling apostrophes to the workers of the world, not absurd questions such as “what is the number one?” Yet as we worked through the syllabus, I was struck by Frege’s injunction “always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical”—to distinguish clearly the reasons...
...college education may not teach the meaning of life or even how to live, but it should awaken a recognition of how much there is yet to learn—and for this, even Frege and an aged university can be a useful guide. No matter how much effort we place on the means, discovering ways to pressure and persuade, to seize the city and to impose our own visions of the future, we will never learn how we are to use our newfound power, or what kind of world we should resolve to build. Such questions...
Some of Heck's recent publications include "TheDevelopment of Arithmetic in Frege'sGrundgesetze der Arithmetik," and an essayentitled "The Sense of Communication...
...read out of Newman's descriptions a really extraordinary role for this English genius who lived to be only 35 and had just 15 productive years. He died almost is the year Frege and Boole began the systematic restructuring of mathematical foundations, but his work on the specific foundations of all the known geometries represents some of the most acute thinking in mathematics with regard to the relation between geometry and physics. Lord Russell has recalled that his own early work was done in ignorance of Clifford's, but ventured that Clifford in the 1870's was thinking ahead...
...Frege solved the latter by distinguishing between a name's meaning (here, 'bewinged horse,' etc.) and its reference (none). Likewise, Husserl distinguished between an act's meaning or noema and its object...