5 Analysing the Problem
Origins of Modern Logic and Language Processing Systems
Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) transformed the field of logic from what it had remained since the days of Aristotle and is regarded as the founder of modern logic and much of modern philosophy. Frege laid the foundations of predicate logic, first-order predicate calculus and quantificational logic – formal systems central to computer science and mathematics (also modern philosophy and linguistics). Independently, Charles Sanders Peirce also made foundational contributions similar to Frege’s (Hammer 1998). Frege was stimulated by the ambiguity and imprecision of ordinary language and launched a project to overcome this hindrance. He did this ...
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