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Persona #194

Gottlob Frege

1848–1925
German mathematician and philosopher; founder of modern symbolic logic and analytic philosophy of language

Begriffsschrift — the logical-language reform that founded analytic philosophy

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Attribute Gottlob Frege
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Mediated
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method N/A
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Gottlob Frege

Standard linear physical time; the realm of logical objects is timeless.

Space

Gottlob Frege

Standard substantival physical space; the realm of logical objects is non-spatial.

Matter

Gottlob Frege

Standard substantival matter; the third realm of objective thoughts is non-material.

Observer

Gottlob Frege

Plural finite reasoners with mediated access to objective thoughts. Cosmic-ordering: the eternal realm of logical and mathematical truth.

Energy

Gottlob Frege

Standard physics.

Information

Gottlob Frege

Information in the third realm of thoughts is eternally conserved (the thought is independent of any thinker).

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Gottlob Frege

Russell's 1902 paradox demolished the logicist derivation of arithmetic from logic in its Fregean form. Frege's late personal turn — his 1918-25 diary records antisemitic and anti-democratic sentiments — is a serious biographical embarrassment that scholarly editors have variously suppressed and confronted; it does not undermine the technical achievement but it does darken the picture.