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cubefoxyesterday at 6:47 AM1 replyview on HN

> One might gently recommend reading the "Political and social views" section

This obviously changes absolutely nothing about his status as greatest logician since Aristotle.

By the way, he is also the person who could be, more appropriately than anyone else, called "father of analytic philosophy", since he strongly influenced Russel, Wittgenstein and Carnap, all themselves major figures of early analytic philosophy, and wrote influential analytic philosophy classics like "On Sense and Reference" more than 130 years ago.

Michael Dummett (who was, according to an obituary, "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality") marked Frege's 1884 book "The Foundations of Arithmetic" as the beginning of analytic philosophy.


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mwkaufmayesterday at 2:18 PM

"obviously" -- keep telling on yourself.

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