Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes Frege's contribution to logic by introducing a perspective that transcends traditional mental and physical assertions.
Bertrand Russell highlights Frege's significant achievement in the realm of logic by identifying a realm of thought that exists independently of both subjective mental states and the objective physical world. This notion represents a breakthrough in understanding the nature of assertions and the foundations of logic, indicating that there are truths that belong to a logical framework distinct from our mental or physical experiences.
In practice
In a philosophy lecture discussing the contributions of Frege to logic.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow
Humanityβs greatest advances are not in its discoveries β but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity β reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.
...those called by Christ's name should order their lives. They should persevere in prayers and supplications and, in imitation of the angels, have their eyes lifted up to the Master above the heavens, praising and blessing Him with irreproachable conduct, and waiting for His mystical Coming. As the Psalmist says to Him, 'I will sing and will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt Thou come unto me?' (Ps. 101:2).
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
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