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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. |