display all the ideas for this combination of texts
1 idea
16879 | A sign won't gain sense just from being used in sentences with familiar components [Frege] |
Full Idea: No sense accrues to a sign by the mere fact that it is used in one or more sentences, the other constituents of which are known. | |
From: Gottlob Frege (Logic in Mathematics [1914], p.213) | |
A reaction: Music to my ears. I've never grasped how meaning could be grasped entirely through use. |