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DA SILVA ARAUJO, Ricardo José. The notion of truth in Gottlob Frege`s  “the thought: a logical investigation”. EPISTEME [online]. 2011, vol.31, n.1, pp.85-90. ISSN 0798-4324.

The notion of truth plays a key role within the semantic logical framework outlined by Gottlob Frege in his essays “Function and concept” and “On Sense and Reference”. In his article “The Thought: a logical investigation”, the German philosopher tells us that logic is the science of truth and the laws, as true, which are of its competence, but what we must understand  by “truth”? This question will be one of the central points that Frege shall exhibit in his article.”Is truth a relationship? Is truth a property?”. And, if it is a property (predicate), what gives us the truth as predicate? what new knowledge about  what he predicates brings us? Now, after explaining and answering questions about the truth, our author ends by stating, in “The thought…”, that truth is a concept sui generis and indefinable, and that’s when the notion of truth presented in “Thought ...”, seems to generate tension with the notion of truth which underlies all the semantic-logical apparatus of the philosophy of Frege. These essay looks to answer the above questions regarding the nature of truth, guided by the responses of Frege and following the direction of authors like Joseph Salerno and Anthony Kenny. It also seeks to examine existing interpretations that may occur to the “conflict” that is generated due to the two different notions of the concept of truth that appear throughout the work of Frege

Palabras clave : Truth; Logic; Deflationism.

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