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[from 'Truly Understood' by Christopher Peacocke, in 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 3. Ontology of Concepts / c. Fregean concepts ]

Full Idea

My basic Fregean idea is that a sense is individuated by the fundamental condition for something to be its reference.

Gist of Idea

A sense is individuated by the conditions for reference

Source

Christopher Peacocke (Truly Understood [2008], Intro)

Book Reference

Peacocke,Christopher: 'Truly Understood' [OUP 2008], p.3


A Reaction

For something to actually be its reference (as opposed to imagined reference), truth must be involved. This needs the post-1891 Frege view of such things, and not just the view of concepts as functions which he started with.