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Individuating Fregean sense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Jeff Speaks
Jeff Speaks*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN46556, USA
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Abstract

While it is highly controversial whether Frege's criterion of sameness and difference for sense is true, it is relatively uncontroversial that that principle is inconsistent with Millian–Russellian views of content. I argue that this should not be uncontroversial. The reason is that it is surprisingly difficult to come up with an interpretation of Frege's criterion which implies anything substantial about the sameness or difference of content of anything.

Keywords

Fregesensemeaning
Type
Constituents and Constituency
Information
Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 43 , Issue 5-6: Special issue: Essays on the Nature of Propositions , December 2013 , pp. 634 - 654
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2013

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