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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

17431	Vagueness is incomplete definition [Frege, by Koslicki]
	Full Idea: Frege seems to assimilate vagueness to incompleteness of definition.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Kathrin Koslicki - Isolation and Non-arbitrary Division 2.1

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

13879	For Frege, ontological questions are to be settled by reference to syntactic structures [Frege, by Wright,C]
	Full Idea: For Frege, syntactic categories are prior to ontological ones, and it is by reference to the syntactic structure of true statements that ontological questions are to be understood and settled.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Crispin Wright - Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects 1.v

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / c. Commitment of predicates

10642	Second-order quantifiers are committed to concepts, as first-order commits to objects [Frege, by Linnebo]
	Full Idea: Frege claims that second-order quantifiers are committed to concepts, just as singular first-order quantifiers are committed to objects.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations) [1884]) by Øystein Linnebo - Plural Quantification 5.3
	A reaction: It increasingly strikes me that Fregeans try to get away with this nonsense by diluting both the notion of a 'concept' and the notion of an 'object'.