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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]
| 9949 | There is the concept, the object falling under it, and the extension (a set, which is also an object) [Frege, by George/Velleman] |
| 18995 | Frege mistakenly takes existence to be a property of concepts, instead of being about things [Frege, by Yablo] |
| 10317 | It is unclear whether Frege included qualities among his abstract objects [Frege, by Hale] |
| 10535 | Frege's 'objects' are both the referents of proper names, and what predicates are true or false of [Frege, by Dummett] |
| 9167 | Frege felt that meanings must be public, so they are abstractions rather than mental entities [Frege, by Putnam] |
| 4973 | As I understand it, a concept is the meaning of a grammatical predicate [Frege] |
| 4974 | For all the multiplicity of languages, mankind has a common stock of thoughts [Frege] |
| 4975 | A thought can be split in many ways, so that different parts appear as subject or predicate [Frege] |
| 9839 | Frege equated the concepts under which an object falls with its properties [Frege, by Dummett] |