Essays on Frege

The advancement into globalization raises a controversial discussion about political and economic systems. By its nature, globalization implies setting a singular standard in various aspects of society, like politics, economics, technology, regulations, employment, etc. (Tregakis and Brewster, 2006). While convergence towards a common political and economic system is encouraged by structures such as European Union, which weakens trade barriers, the cultural patterns, the timing of industrialization, the nature of the dominant industries, the density of population or the disparity between rich and poor count as factors of divergence (Ashraf and Galor, 2007). As a result, two most common economic ...

Computing is one of the most popular fields of study today, and for good reason: computers have changed the way that humanity deals with each other and with problems. Nearly every facet of life today is affected by computing and number theory, but the events leading up to the computer-heavy world that exists today is checkered and fascinating. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis is a text that explores the history of number theory and computing, from the early days of number theory right up to the birth of modern programming. There is ...

This paper is an analysis of the papers published by renowned authors discussing their approach and stance towards logic and rationality. This paper aims to compare the work of 4 renowned authors to come to a comprehensive understanding of the philosophy of logic and rationality and how it can be interpreted differently in different situations as according to the context and the play of words and other linguistic tools. The four renowned authors whose work will be up for comparison and evaluation in this research paper include the likes of Willard Van Orman Quine and his paper titled “Two Dogmas ...

When people, especially politicians, talk about the future, they often refer to the present as working towards a more perfected version of future. Their agendas are directly associated with this more perfected reality of the future. The futurist sociologist Jean Baudrillard however sees this as a fallacy. He believes the intrinsic state of human nature, the completion and perfection of knowledge as one that will always lead to us being incomplete and without our most basic need as the search for truth and understanding as unfulfilled. This essay explores those ramifications 50-100 years in the future. Baudrillard believed that words ...

In this paper, I will be focusing on Frenge’s importance of symbols, representations, and proper names. First, when it is stated that a valuable extension of knowledge of a and b contain valuable extensions it means that the intersecting point of a and b is the same point as the intersection point of b and c. A and b are merely symbols. Finally, it is much the same way that parents select the name for their child. The chosen name is usually not random, but rather a symbolic gesture, it has a story behind it. A and b are points of intersection. They are both connected to a ...