"Frege's development began with... "an epoch-making little book" called ', translated as Concept Script or Conceptual Notation... Just as Aristotle's ' is the foundation of traditional or syllogistic logic—the logic of the categorical three-term syllogism, Frege's Begriffsschrift is the keystone of modern or mathematical logic."
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Michael Losonsky, Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy (2006) pp. 148-149.
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