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Tarski is widely regarded as the father of formal semantics, and rightly so. But if Tarski is the father, then Frege is the grandfather. Frege’s Grundgesetze der Arithmetik contains a semantic theory for his formal language, his begriffsschrift (or ‘conceptual notation’), that is no less rigorous than the one for the calculus of classes that Tarski develops in the early parts of “The Concept of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0029-4527
DOI: 10.1305/ndjfl/1093636851