Bedeutung of a proper name is the object it means or. A relation between objects, or between names or signs of objects. In this paper, frege considered two puzzles about language and noticed, in each case, that one cannot account for the meaningfulness or logical behavior of certain sentences simply on the basis of the denotations of the. This is in full accord with the criterion 1 gavethat the singular definite article always indicates an object, whereas the indefinite article accompanies a conceptword. For ease of reference, the original pagination is indicated in double square brackets. In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an innovation. Equality 1 gives rise to challenging questions which are not altogether easy to answer. On 14 pages frege tries to determine the semantic roles of various kinds of subordinate clauses.
Frege examines the question of how the object which is designated by a sign is related to the meaning which is expressed by the sign. While conventional accounts of meaning took expressions to have just one feature reference, frege introduced the. Frege, gottlob internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Gottlob frege project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. In our example, accordingly, the reference of the expressions the point of intersection of a and b and the point of intersection of b and c would be the same, but not their senses.
In freges symbolism, if we represent a proposition with a letter, like p, we would repre. Frege pronounced frayga was born on 8 november 1848 in wismar in northern germany. Gottlob frege 18481925, logico, filosofo e matematico tedesco. Equalitya gives rise to challenging questions which are not altogether easy to answer. It is freges most influential and best known work, containing his fullest account of his distinction between sinn and bedeutung. Two expressions might have the same reference, but present it in different ways, and this mode of presentation is the sense of the expression. Studienarbeit aus dem jahr 2009 im fachbereich philosophie philosophie des 19. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Bachelorarbeit, masterarbeit, hausarbeit oder dissertation. Il suo principale contributo viene dallintroduzione della distinzione tra senso sinn e riferimento bedeutung, sviluppata nellarticolo del 1892. Gottlob frege on sense and reference excerpt1 english translation of part of gottlob frege. He wrote philosophical works about logic, mathematics, and language. His father, karl alexander frege, and his mother, auguste bialloblotzsky frege, both worked at a girls private.
On sense and reference gottlob frege as reprinted in a. Frege was born on november 8, 1848 in the coastal city of wismar in northern germany. His father, karl alexander frege, was the founder of a girls high school, of which he was the headmaster until his death in 1866. His full christened name was friedrich ludwig gottlob frege.
Gottlob frege by individual philosopher philosophy. In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an innovation of the german philosopher and mathematician gottlob frege in 1892 in his paper on sense and reference. Sprachliche bedeutung ist so etwas wie fregescher sinn. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Derselbe sinn hat in verschiedenen sprachen, ja auch in derselben verschiedene ausdrucke. According to frege, sense and reference are two different aspects of the significance of an expression. It is frege s most influential and best known work, containing his fullest account of his distinction between sinn and bedeutung.
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