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

Walter B Pedriali

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

Walter B Pedriali

Philosophy

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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 wholly superfluous. Assertion, the objection goes, is at best of merely psychological significance. In this paper, I defend Frege against the objection by giving reasons for recognising the central logical significance of assertion in both its formal and its transcendental role.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-22
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Volume	5
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15173/jhap.v5i8.3073
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2017

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