This volume discusses some crucial ideas of the founders of the analytic philosophy: Gottlob
Frege Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein or the 'golden trio'. The book shows how these
'old' ideas are still present and influential in the current philosophical debates and to what
extent these debates echo the original ideas. The collection aim is twofold: to better
understand these fruitful ideas by placing them in the original setting and to systematically
examine these ideas in the context of the current debates animating philosophical discussions
today. Divided into five sections the book first sets the stage and offers a general
introduction to the background influences as well as delimitations of the initial foundational
positions. This first section contains two papers dedicated to the discussion of realism and
the status of science at that time followed by two papers that tackle the epistemic status of
logical laws. The next three sections constitute the core of the volume each being dedicated
to the most important figures in the early analytic tradition: Frege Russell and
Wittgenstein. The last section gathers several essays that discuss either the relation between
two or more analytic thinkers or various important concepts such as 'predicativism' and
'arbitrary function' or the principles of abstraction and non-contradiction.
