Onde não há soberano, não há súditos: uma leitura epistemológica de O Pensamento

Abstract

The question of truth is recurrent in Fregean texts. This work focuses on the historical and theoretical research on the subject in the work of Frege and of those who set out to comment on the matter. The epistemology is handled directly in the article The Thought (1918-1919) that will guide our search for the right way that we know the world. Frege's life will be addressed to clarify the reading of the article as a project that is in the overall work of the philosopher and not separated from the Fregean project, as well as the influences that other philosophers had on the work. The delimitation of what is studied by logic is essential to contextualize how the term 'truht' is actually approached, in the other words, the delimitation of 'be true', or the normalization to get knowledge about the world. The thought is taken as the bearer of truth, it is independent of the objective world and that the representations of which they are part. The proposition is the dress of thought, so that man can assert about the world. We must avoid the forms of knowledge that are contaminated by sensible experience, for it alone is not capable of capture the truth, which has its own dimension in Frege's philosophy. The truth must be understood as a fact which is recognized as true and we can get to it by observing the laws of logic.