With whom does Michael Dummett pinpoint the linguistic turn?
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gottlob Frege
Friedrich Nietzsche
Answer
Michael Dummett pinpoints the linguistic turn with Gottlob Frege. He believes that Frege was the first philosopher to view language as a tool for thinking, rather than simply a way to communicate. Frege also argued that language is essential to logic, and that logic is essential to mathematics.
The Mindbender: Unraveling Gottlob Frege's Contributions to Logic and Mathematics
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