In this episode, we explore the extraordinary life and ideas of Gottlob Frege, the German mathematician and philosopher whose work quietly revolutionised the entire structure of modern reasoning.
Although largely unknown during his lifetime, Frege would go on to reshape mathematics, logic, philosophy of language, and even the foundations of computer science. His invention of predicate logic replaced the 2,000-year-old Aristotelian system, solving problems traditional logic could never handle and creating the framework that underpins modern programming, artificial intelligence, and analytic philosophy.
We unpack Frege’s intellectual journey — his early ambition to show that all of mathematics could be derived purely from logic, the publication of his groundbreaking Begriffsschrift, and the devastating arrival of Russell’s Paradox, which forced him to abandon decades of work. We also look at his profound influence on thinkers like Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Rudolf Carnap, all of whom used Frege’s ideas as the bedrock of their own revolutionary theories.
Finally, we explore Frege’s famous distinction between sense and reference, a concept that transformed the philosophy of language and continues to shape linguistics, semantics, and cognitive science today.
By the end of this episode, you’ll understand why Frege — a quiet, meticulous thinker who published books no one read — became one of the most important intellectual architects of the 20th century. His ideas didn’t just influence philosophy; they changed how the modern world thinks.
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