Gottlob Frege · Mathematics
As the second volume of the <em>Grundgesetze</em> went to press in 1902, a letter from Bertrand Russell revealed that Frege’s Basic Law V was inconsistent - a contradiction lay at the very foundation of his life’s work. This is the story of that collapse, Frege’s stricken response, and how his logic remade philosophy even as his own dream fell.
You learned that Russell’s paradox - the class of all classes not members of themselves - showed Frege’s Basic Law V to be inconsistent; that Russell’s letter arrived as the Grundgesetze vol. II went to press; that Frege’s stricken appendix acknowledged the collapse; and that his logic nonethel…
Leads to Bertrand Russell.
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