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Proof Without Gaps: Gottlob Frege and the Audacious Wager
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ISBN13: 9798184941646
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He invented the way we reason - and almost no one noticed.
Gottlob Frege lectured to empty chairs in a provincial German university and, in near-total obscurity, rebuilt the foundations of human thought. He created modern logic out of almost nothing. He made the first serious attempt to prove that all of arithmetic is logic in disguise. And along the way he taught the world how meaning works - why a single thing can be named in two different ways, why a sentence quietly points at truth, why some thoughts seem to belong to no one at all.
Gottlob Frege lectured to empty chairs in a provincial German university and, in near-total obscurity, rebuilt the foundations of human thought. He created modern logic out of almost nothing. He made the first serious attempt to prove that all of arithmetic is logic in disguise. And along the way he taught the world how meaning works - why a single thing can be named in two different ways, why a sentence quietly points at truth, why some thoughts seem to belong to no one at all.
Then, with his masterwork already at the printer, a short and courteous letter arrived and brought the whole structure down. Most accounts call that the end of the story. This book calls it the discovery. For in the ruins of his grandest ambition, Frege had found something no one had ever clearly seen: the boundary of precision itself - the line beyond which not even the most careful reasoning can turn the world into tidy, nameable objects.
Told entirely without mathematics, in plain and vivid language, this is the story of one luminous, lonely mind moving from its impossible dream to its most honest defeat. It follows a man who was right too soon, who admitted his own failure with a candor no one has matched, and whose abandoned work went on to reshape philosophy, language, and the machines that now think in our place. A century late, the empty room is finally full.
Keywords: logic, philosophy of language, mathematics, meaning, reason, analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege
Told entirely without mathematics, in plain and vivid language, this is the story of one luminous, lonely mind moving from its impossible dream to its most honest defeat. It follows a man who was right too soon, who admitted his own failure with a candor no one has matched, and whose abandoned work went on to reshape philosophy, language, and the machines that now think in our place. A century late, the empty room is finally full.
Keywords: logic, philosophy of language, mathematics, meaning, reason, analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege
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