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Ideas for 'works', 'Review of Husserl's 'Phil of Arithmetic'' and 'Critique of Judgement II: Teleological'

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9821	A definition need not capture the sense of an expression - just get the reference right [Frege, by Dummett]
	Full Idea: Frege expressly denies that a correct definition need capture the sense of the expression it defines: it need only get the reference right.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Review of Husserl's 'Phil of Arithmetic' [1894]) by Michael Dummett - Frege philosophy of mathematics Ch.3
	A reaction: This might hit up against the renate/cordate problem, of two co-extensive concepts, where the definition gets the extension right, but the intension wrong.