 But in the 50-page Section III of her paper, Bobzien constructs numerous tables of comparison that place passages from the Stoic and Fregean corpora side-by-side and interlaces them with observations and careful scholarship that connect the most salient (transliterated) Greek phrases with their German counterparts.  The overall effect is a kind of res ipsa loquitur – the thing speaks for itself – and places the ball squarely in the court of those who would attempt to deny the identities and similarities.  The evidence doesn't challenge the insight and ingenuity that Frege brought to bear when he formalized the language and logic of mathematics (and certain constructions of natural language) in terms of the 19th century understanding of functions, and so the formal representations presented earlier in this entry were something that was not borrowed from the Stoics. And though Frege independently motivated the ideas he absorbed from the Stoics, Bobzien shows how many aspects of Frege’s underlying approach to language is directly founded on ideas from fifteen hundred years ago and so are not as new as originally thought. 