Frege’s Equivalence Thesis and Reference Failure

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Organon F Pub Date : 2021-01-28 DOI:10.31577/ORGF.2021.28109
Nathan Hawkins
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Frege claims that sentences of the form ‘A’ are equivalent to sentences of the form ‘it is true that A’ (The Equivalence Thesis). Frege also says that there are fictional names that fail to refer, and that sentences featuring fictional names fail to refer as a result. The thoughts such sentences express, Frege says, are also fictional, and neither true nor false. Michael Dummett argues that these claims are inconsistent. But his argument requires clarification, since there are two ways The Equivalence Thesis has been formulated, according as the thesis equates the senses or the referents of the relevant sentences. I have two aims in this paper. The first is to demonstrate that a sameness of sense thesis is inconsistent with Frege’s other theses. The second is to argue that a sameness of reference thesis is consistent with them. Thus, all else being equal, Frege ought to endorse a sameness of reference, rather than a sameness of sense thesis.
弗雷格的等价命题与参考失效
弗雷格认为形式为" A "的句子与形式为" it is true that A "的句子是等价的(等价命题)。弗雷格还说,有些虚构的名字无法指代,因此,以虚构名字为特征的句子也无法指代。弗雷格说,这些句子表达的思想也是虚构的,既不真实也不虚假。Michael Dummett认为这些说法是不一致的。但他的论点需要澄清,因为等价命题有两种表述方式,即等价命题将相关句子的意义或指称等同起来。我写这篇论文有两个目的。首先是证明意义同一性论题与弗雷格的其他论题是不一致的。二是论证参考论题的同一性与二者是一致的。因此,在其他条件相同的情况下,弗雷格应当赞同指称同一性,而不是意义同一性的论点。
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Organon F
Organon F PHILOSOPHY-
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0.70
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20.00%
发文量
19
审稿时长
38 weeks
期刊介绍: Organon F publishes high-quality articles on the entire range of topics discussed in contemporary analytic philosophy. Accordingly, we invite authors to submit articles that address issues that belong, but are not limited, to philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics and philosophical logic. We also consider analytically written articles on ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy and history of philosophy. The principal aim is to publish original articles that meet the standards typical of analytic philosophy, primarily those of conceptual clarity, precision and soundness of argumentation.
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