Single Idea 9832

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity]

Full Idea

Frege left no place for a category of the intersubjective, intermediate between the wholly objective and the radically subjective.

Gist of Idea

Frege sees no 'intersubjective' category, between objective and subjective

Source

comment on Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Michael Dummett - Frege philosophy of mathematics Ch.7

Book Reference

Dummett,Michael: 'Frege: philosophy of mathematics' [Duckworth 1991], p.77


A Reaction

Interesting. More sophisticated accounts of language (with the Private Language Argument as background) hold out possibilities of objectivity arising from an articulate community. See Idea 95.

Related Idea

Idea 95 If everyone believes it, it is true [Aristotle]