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Frege’s Logic > The Period Between Begriffsschrift and Grundgesetze (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Between the 1879 publication of Begriffsschrift and the 1893 publication of the first volume of Grundgesetze, Frege published a series of articles that showcase the evolution of his views on logic. The early essays during this period, including “Boole’s Logical Calculus and the Concept Script” (Frege 1880/1881), “Boole’s Logical Formula Language and my Concept-script” (Frege 1881), “On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation” (Frege 1882a), and “On the Aim of the ‘Conceptual Notation’” (Frege 1882b), focus in great part on comparisons between Frege’s logic and the competing systems proposed by George Boole (1815–1864) and his followers, but nevertheless contain a number of insights that are relevant (see the early sections of the entry on the algebra of logic tradition for more details on Boole’s program). In addition, Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (The Foundations of Arithmetic), while more philosophical than technical, also includes hints at Frege’s changing views on lo

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