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Ideas for 'works', 'The Tragic Sense of Life' and 'Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations)'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 6. Plural Quantification
14236 Each horse doesn't fall under the concept 'horse that draws the carriage', because all four are needed [Oliver/Smiley on Frege]
     Full Idea: Frege says the number four is assigned to the concept 'horse that draws the Kaiser's carriage', but the four horses that drew the carriage did so together, not separately. No horses, not four, fall under the Fregean concept.
     From: comment on Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884], §46) by Oliver,A/Smiley,T - What are Sets and What are they For? Intro
     A reaction: They say that Frege stumbles because he is blind to irreducibly plural predicates.