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Gotslop Freger died in 1925 with National Socialism on the March.

Born in Wiesmar in Germany in 1848, the year of revolution, Freger was the revolutionized philosophy.

It was a slow burn revolution.

Freger's now celebrated as one of the fathers of analytic philosophy.

Yet in his own lifetime, his ambitious project to analyze language and to put mathematics on

a secure logical footing went largely unrecognized. It took other geniuses, Burton Russell, Ludwig

Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap to acknowledge Phrager's brilliance. In a terrible blow to Freger Russell would send him a letter pointing

out a paradox at the heart of his logic. That's not our subject here, but it was not unrelated

to the well-known conundrum of the barber.

The male barber shaves all the men in the village who don't shave themselves.

The question then arises, well who shaves the barber?

Despite Russell's critique of Phraiger's logical system,

Phraiger's writings on language and thought

are still the starting point for any serious study

of analytic philosophy.

And there's nobody more qualified to talk about Phregas

philosophy than Michael Dummit, a distinguished Phregas scholar long retired from

the Wickham Chair of Logic at Oxford.

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