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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

13876	The syntactic category is primary, and the ontological category is derivative [Frege, by Wright,C]
	Full Idea: For Frege it is the syntactic category which is primary, the ontological one derivative.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Crispin Wright - Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects 1.iii
	A reaction: I take the recent revival of metaphysics to be a rebellion against precisely this thought. Ontology disappeared for a hundred years into a hopeless miasma of linguistic complexity. Language is cludge, but the world isn't.