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Single Idea 13890

[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / b. Analysis of concepts ]

Full Idea

'Tree' is not a sortal concept under which directions fall since we cannot adequately explain the truth-conditions of any identity statement involving a pair of tree-denoting singular terms by appealing to facts to do with parallelism between lines.

Gist of Idea

Entities fall under a sortal concept if they can be used to explain identity statements concerning them

Source

Crispin Wright (Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects [1983], 3.xiv)

Book Ref

Wright,Crispin: 'Frege's Conception of Numbers' [Scots Philosophical Monographs 1983], p.114


A Reaction

The idea seems to be that these two fall under 'hedgehog', because that is a respect in which they are identical. I like to notion of explanation as a part of this.