Frege A Guide for the Perplexed

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Begriffsschrift :probing the Terrain............7 Scope of a Concept-script......7 The epistemological Dimension of logic .....20 The struggle against intuition and language .............39 Concept-script : A brief overview............47 2. Begriffsschrift: Digging deeper........55 The judgement-stroke and the content - stroke..............58 subject and predicate..........64 Negation ...........75 Conditionality...............89 The functional character of concept -script........94 Identity.............106 Difinition ...............118 Logical analysis and elucidations..124 Functions and functional Analysis.......134 Functions, concepts, properties.............155 Generality..160 Inference...........170 3. Later developments.........179 Sense and meaning ..............179 The funcion - theoretic account of sense.........184 The challenge of contingent thoughts............197 are concepts functions?.............202 Concept and object.....205 Fictional discourse...................214 4. Epilogue..............217