The Logical Significance of Assertion: Frege on the Essence of Logic

Assertion plays a crucial dual role in Frege's conception of logic, a formal and a transcendental one. A recurrent complaint is that Frege's inclusion of the judgement-stroke (the formal counterpart of assertion) in the Begriffsschrift is either in tension with his anti-psychologism or wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walter B. Pedriali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MULPress 2017-08-01
Series:Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Online Access:https://jhaponline.org/jhap/article/view/3073