Concept Script

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Concept Script is Gottlob Frege’s groundbreaking 1879 logical notation system that introduced a formal language for pure thought and laid the foundations of modern predicate logic.

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instanceOf formal language
logical notation system
work of logic
aimedAt making logical inferences explicit
providing a calculus for reasoning
author Gottlob Frege
contributedTo foundations of analytic philosophy
foundations of modern predicate logic
creator Gottlob Frege
employsConcept function–argument analysis of propositions
field logic
mathematical logic
philosophy of logic
focusesOn pure thought
hasAbbreviation Begriffsschrift
hasFullTitle Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens
hasKeyIdea explicit representation of inference rules
logic as a formal calculus
separation of logical form from content
hasLogicalSystemType second-order logic
hasNotationStyle two-dimensional formula notation
historicalSignificance first fully formal system of predicate logic
milestone in the development of symbolic logic
influenced Alfred North Whitehead
Bertrand Russell
Principia Mathematica
modern symbolic logic
introduced formal language for pure thought
modern predicate logic framework
quantificational notation
isFoundationFor Fregean semantics
surface form: Fregean logic

classical first-order predicate logic (conceptually)
modeledOn arithmetical formula language
originalLanguage German
originalTitle Begriffsschrift
precedes Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, Volume I
surface form: Grundgesetze der Arithmetik
publicationCountry Germany
publicationYear 1879
publisherLocation Halle (Saale)
surface form: Halle
rejected traditional subject–predicate analysis of propositions
timePeriod 19th century
translatedTitle Concept Script, a formula language of pure thought modelled on that of arithmetic
usesNotationFor functions and arguments
identity
logical connectives
quantifiers

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Begriffsschrift translatedTitle Concept Script