Full Idea
A Fregean semantics assumes a domain already determinately articulated into individual objects.
Gist of Idea
Fregean semantics assumes a domain articulated into individual objects
Source
Michael Dummett (Frege philosophy of mathematics [1991], Ch. 8)
Book Reference
Dummett,Michael: 'Frege: philosophy of mathematics' [Duckworth 1991], p.94
A Reaction
A more interesting criticism than most of Dummett's other challenges to the Frege/Davidson view. I am beginning to doubt whether the semantics and the ontology can ever be divorced from the psychology, of thought, interests, focus etc.