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Full Idea
Frege's notion of an object plays two roles in his semantics. Objects are the referents of proper names, and they are equally what predicates are true and false of.
Gist of Idea
Frege's 'objects' are both the referents of proper names, and what predicates are true or false of
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (On Concept and Object [1892]) by Michael Dummett - Frege Philosophy of Language (2nd ed) Ch.4
Book Ref
Dummett,Michael: 'Frege Philosophy of Language' [Duckworth 1981], p.474
A Reaction
Frege is the source of a desperate desire to turn everything into an object (see Idea 8858!), and he has the irritating authority of the man who invented quantificational logic. Nothing but trouble, that man.
Related Idea
Idea 8858 Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo]
| 9825 | A thing is completely determined by all that can be thought concerning it [Dedekind] |
| 10535 | Frege's 'objects' are both the referents of proper names, and what predicates are true or false of [Frege, by Dummett] |
| 8489 | The concept 'object' is too simple for analysis; unlike a function, it is an expression with no empty place [Frege] |
| 8785 | For Frege, objects just are what singular terms refer to [Frege, by Hale/Wright] |
| 10278 | Without concepts we would not have any objects [Frege, by Shapiro] |
| 9877 | Late Frege saw his non-actual objective objects as exclusively thoughts and senses [Frege, by Dummett] |
| 8718 | Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties [Meinong, by Friend] |
| 8971 | There are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects [Meinong] |
| 21536 | When I perceive a melody, I do not perceive the notes as existing [Russell] |
| 7781 | I call an object of thought a 'term'. This is a wide concept implying unity and existence. [Russell] |
| 22320 | An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein] |
| 10796 | If objects are thoughts, aren't we back to psychologism? [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 10531 | There is a modern philosophical notion of 'object', first introduced by Frege [Dummett] |
| 9202 | Objects, as well as sentences, can have logical form [Fine,K] |
| 8263 | An object is an entity which has identity-conditions [Lowe] |