THE LOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

FREGE, GOTTLOB.

The Thought: a Logical Inquiry (Translated by A.M. and Mercelle Quinton). (In: Mind. A quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy. Edited by Gilbert Ryle. Vol. LXV. No. 259. July, 1956). + Negation. Translated by P.T. Geach. (In: Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege. Edited by Peter Geach and Max Black. Oxford, Blackwell, 1952). + Compound Thoughts. (Translated by Mr. R.H. Stoothoff). (In: Mind. a Quarterly Review. Edited by Gilbert Ryle. Vol. LXXII. No. 285. January, 1963).

Edinburgh & Oxford, 1952, 1956 + 1963. All three articles are present in the entire orig. volumes, all in the orig. wrappers. The two volumes of "Mind" are in the orig. printed grey wrappers and the "Philosophical Essays" is in the orig. green full cloth w. the orig. d-j. in very good condition w. only a few smaller tears to upper capital and upper front wrapper, not price-clipped. Internally mint. Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285 w. a tear to back, else very fine. Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259 w. some signs of wear, especially to extremities, but a fine and internally very clean copy.

This set comprises the entire "Logische Untersuchungen" in the first English language translations. In the foreword to "Compound Thoughts", the translator notes: "This article, entitled "Logische Untersuchungen. Dritter Teil: Gedankenfüge", was published in the "Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, III (1923), 36-51. The first two parts of these "logical investigations" were "Der Gedanke" (Beiträge I (1819), trans. "The Thought" in MIND LXV (1956) ) and "Die Verneinung" (Beiträge I (1919), trans. "Negation" in Geach and Black (ed.) "Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege."). The three articles that constitute the Logical Investigations are some of the most important, influential and widely discussed of Frege's philosophical papers. In 1875 the entire "Logical Investigations" appeared together in English translation for the first time. It was Frege's wish that these three articles were viewed as a whole and published together under the title of "Logische Untersuchungen", now considered a work of the utmost importance.
These three volumes also comprise many other articles by Frege in the first English translations (in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege) as well as original contributions by P.T. Geach: "On Frege's Way Out" (in Mind Vol. LXV, No. 259. and "Mr. Strawson on Symbolic and Traditional Logic" (in Mind Vol. LXXII, No. 285).
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) was a German mathematician, but his main contributions lie in his becoming a logician and a philosopher, who influenced the fields of logic and analytic philosophy immensely. Together with Wittgenstein, Russel and Moore, Frege is considered the founder of analytic philosophy, and a main founder of modern mathematical logic. His influence on 20th century philosophy has been profound, especially in the English speaking countries from the middle of the 20th century and onwards; in this period most of his works were translated into English for the first time.The philosophical papers of Frege were published in Germany in scholarly journals, which were barely read outside of German speaking countries. The first collections of his writings did not appear untill after the the Second World War, and Frege was little known as a philosopher during his lifetime. He greatly influenced the likes of Russel, Wittgenstein and Carnap, though, and bears a great responsibility for the turn modern philosophical thought has taken. Due to his contributions to the philosophy of language, analytic philosophy could be founded as it were.

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