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Full Idea
For all the multiplicity of languages, mankind has a common stock of thoughts.
Gist of Idea
For all the multiplicity of languages, mankind has a common stock of thoughts
Source
Gottlob Frege (On Concept and Object [1892], p.196n)
Book Ref
Frege,Gottlob: 'Translations from the Writings of Gottlob Frege', ed/tr. Geach,P/Black,M [Blackwell 1980], p.46
A Reaction
Given the acknowledgement here that two very different sentences in different languages can express the same thought, he should recognise that at least some aspects of a thought are non-linguistic.
| 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] |