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Full Idea
Frege equated the concepts under which an object falls with its properties.
Gist of Idea
Frege equated the concepts under which an object falls with its properties
Source
report of Gottlob Frege (On Concept and Object [1892], p.201) by Michael Dummett - Frege philosophy of mathematics Ch.8
Book Ref
Dummett,Michael: 'Frege: philosophy of mathematics' [Duckworth 1991], p.98
A Reaction
I take this to be false, as objects can fall under far more concepts than they have properties. I don't even think 'being a pencil' is a property of pencils, never mind 'being my favourite pencil', or 'not being Alexander the Great'.
| 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] |