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Single Idea 11126
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Full Idea
Frege notes that an expression without a referent ('Pegasus') needn't lack a meaning, since it still has a sense, and the same referent (Eric Blair) can be associated with different expressions (George Orwell) because they convey different senses.
Gist of Idea
'Sense' gives meaning to non-referring names, and to two expressions for one referent
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (On Sense and Reference [1892]) by E Margolis/S Laurence - Concepts 1.3
Book Ref
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.4
A Reaction
A nice neat summary of the value of Frege's introduction of the sense/reference distinction, which seems to me to be virtually undeniable (a rare event in modern philosophy).
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[giving meaning in the manner laid out by Gottlob Frege]:
11126
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'Sense' gives meaning to non-referring names, and to two expressions for one referent
[Frege, by Margolis/Laurence]
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8164
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Frege was the first to construct a plausible theory of meaning
[Frege, by Dummett]
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9817
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Earlier Frege focuses on content itself; later he became interested in understanding content
[Frege, by Dummett]
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8171
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Frege divided the meaning of a sentence into sense, force and tone
[Frege, by Dummett]
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4954
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Frege uses 'sense' to mean both a designator's meaning, and the way its reference is determined
[Kripke on Frege]
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7304
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Frege explained meaning as sense, semantic value, reference, force and tone
[Frege, by Miller,A]
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7309
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Frege's 'sense' is the strict and literal meaning, stripped of tone
[Frege, by Miller,A]
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7312
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'Sense' solves the problems of bearerless names, substitution in beliefs, and informativeness
[Frege, by Miller,A]
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16349
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Russell rejected sense/reference, because it made direct acquaintance with things impossible
[Russell, by Recanati]
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7313
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'Sense' is superfluous (rather than incoherent)
[Russell, by Miller,A]
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9836
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Fregean semantics assumes a domain articulated into individual objects
[Dummett]
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7331
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A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic
[Davidson, by Macey]
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7327
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Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning
[Davidson, by Miller,A]
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2520
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Sense determines meaning and synonymy, not referential properties like denotation and truth
[Katz]
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6077
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Semantics should not be based on set-membership, but on instantiation of properties in objects
[McGinn]
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16382
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Fregean modes of presentation can be understood as mental files
[Recanati]
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18413
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Fregeans can't agree on what 'senses' are
[Cappelen/Dever]
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