Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2005
Abstract
Since the appearance of Dummett's monumental monograph in the early seventies of the last century there have been two interpretative traditions of reading Frege, one contradicting the other: the platonistic (or realistic) and the holistic (rationalistic) one. In this article, as a kind of intermediation, I firstly point out some pragmatic aspects of Frege's work.
Secondly, and more ambitiously, I outline the controversy between the most influential theories of truth (the correspondence, coherence, redundancy and pragmatic theory) in the light of Frege's philosophy. Anyway it was the concept of truth, which Frege himself called the main objective of logic.