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Single Idea 10510

[from 'On Sense and Reference' by Gottlob Frege, in 5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / d. Singular terms ]

Full Idea

Frege ascribes reference not only to singular terms, but equally to expressions of other kinds (the various kinds of incomplete expressions).

Gist of Idea

Frege ascribes reference to incomplete expressions, as well as to singular terms

Source

report of Gottlob Frege (On Sense and Reference [1892]) by Bob Hale - Abstract Objects Ch.3 Intro


A Reaction

The incomplete expressions presumably make reference to concepts. Frege may not seem, therefore, to have a notion of reference as what plugs language into reality - except that he is presumably a platonist about concepts.