Frege on sense and reference ted sider phil language basic idea. In an opaque linguistic context like the one created by believes that terms do not have their customary reference, according to frege, but rather their indirect reference, which just is their customary sense. Freges theory of indirect contexts and the shift of sense and reference in these contexts has puzzled many. Two expressions might have the same reference, but present it in different ways, and this mode of presentation is the sense of the expression. Reference is how language hooks onto the worldhow language is. Routledge philosophy guidebook to frege on sense and reference routledge philosophy guidebooks by mark textor accessibility books library as well as its powerful features, including thousands and thousands of title from favorite author, along with the capability to read or download hundreds of boos on your pc or smartphone in minutes. In indirect speech one speaks about the sense of, for example, the speech of another. Frege was a german mathematician, logician, and philosopher. Mark textors book, frege on sense and reference, is published in.
Kripkes frege kripkes frege theory of sense and reference. So the indirect reference of a word is its ordinary sense. This seems to threaten an infinite hierarchy of senses of senses. It is quite clear that in this way of speaking words do not have their customary bedactung. In order to speak of the sense of an expression a one may simply use the phrase the sense of the expression a. Such exceptions must always be borne in mind if the mode of connexion between sign, sense, and reference in particular cases is to be correctly understood. His father, alexander, a headmaster of a secondary school for girls, and his mother, auguste nee bialloblotzky, brought him up in the. Pdf on nov 16, 2014, michael kremer and others published mark textor, frege on. Sinn to accommodate difficulties in his early theory of meaning. Why the music in the live action disney remakes is worse than you thought duration. Such exceptions must always be borne in mind if the mode of connection between sign, sense, and. The conclusion is to ascribe to frege an implicit doctrine of acquaintance similar to that of russell.
Clear from the discussion of that theory that i the reference of a. Frege earlier argued that identity is a relation between names. The philosophy of language lecture two 10ptfreges sense. Why does frege think there are indirect senses and. The indirect reference of a word is accordingly its customary sense. The language learner does, of course, need to learn. Pdf on nov 16, 2014, michael kremer and others published mark textor, frege on sense and reference find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Frege applies the sensereference distinction to the task of explaining the significance of attitude ascriptionshe introduces the idea of both indirect reference and sense. An explanation of gottlob freges solutions to freges puzzle and the problem of propositional attitude reports using freges theory of sense.
Frege s puzzle about identity sentences as frege says at the outset of on sense and reference, identity gives rise to challenging. Frege groups them under the heading of proper names another term often used is. Freges theory of indirect contexts and the shift of sense and reference in these. This constitutes an essential difference between the idea and the signs sense, which may be the common property of many and therefore is not a part of a mode of. In that context he renounces a demonstration of the shift of sense and reference in the case of indirect discourse because he thinks he has already taken care of it. All that is needed to save frege, then, is to add these rules to his theory of sense and reference. Frege believes that language is extensional in the sense that the referent of any complex referring expression is uniquely determined by the referents of its. Bedeutung of a proper name is the object it means or. He formulated a radical alternative, his famous theory of sinn and bedeutung. Why does frege think there are indirect senses and references. For frege, the sense is the sort of meaning a linguistic expression has over and above its putative referent lycan, pg. According to the curriculum vitae that the 26year old frege filed in 1874 with his habilitationsschrift, he was born on november 8, 1848 in wismar, a town then in mecklenburgschwerin but now in mecklenburgvorpommern. Freges puzzle about identity sentences as frege says at the outset of on. Freges theory of reference university of notre dame.
The present paper argues that the key to freges theory lies in the fact that whenever a reference is specified even though many senses determine a single reference, it is specified in a particular way, so that giving a reference implies giving a sense. Sameness is misleading in stating the initial puzzle. Unfortunately, the path is rugged and progress is slow. The two statements differ in their cognitive value.
Sense now it is plausible to connect with a sign name, word combination. Argues that frege is committed to a doctrine of acquaintance and revelatory senses. It is clear from this that in this form of speech the words do not have their. So far, if you have noticed, we have talked of the expressions referring to objects. One should always keep an eye on such exceptions, if one is to understand correctly the way in which sign, sense and reference are associated. What can the hierarchy of indirect senses, doubly indirect senses, and so on, be. The sense of a name is both the mode of presentation and the determinant of its referent it also functions for frege as the indirect as opposed to customary reference when the name is embedded in a context of indirect quotation or propositional attitude ascription. Freges theory of sense and reference that marcus family home. Winner of the standing ovation award for best powerpoint templates from presentations magazine. Some exegetical notes focuses on frege on the hierarchy of senses and on the senses of i and now. Freges reasons for thinking that a theory of reference must be supplemented with a theory of sense.
On indirect sense and reference wiley online library. General principles for frege s doctrine of sense and reference are sated, for both direct and indirect quotation, to be understood iteratively. 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. By holding that when an expression f is used in an indirect context it denotes its indirect reference i. Freges paper, on sense and reference, is widely considered the beginning of analytic philosophy.
It is argued that an indirect sense must be immediately revelatory of its reference. The direct sense of a sentence is the stand alone meaning of the sentence, i. We omit the discussion of indirect speech in pages 5859. Frege s reasons for thinking that a theory of reference must be supplemented with a theory of sense. In the philosophy of language, the distinction between sense and reference was an innovation or significance, but rendered by freges translators as reference, referent, meaning, nominatum, etc. General principles for freges doctrine of sense and reference are sated, for both direct and indirect quotation, to be understood iteratively. Pdf mark textor, frege on sense and reference researchgate. Freges antipsychologism the reference and sense of a sign are to be distinguished from the associated idea. Freges on sense and reference philosophy of language. Statements of identity such as a a are established a priori, yet a b has a different cognitive value.
Frege, sense and reference, indirect senses, immediately. Worlds best powerpoint templates crystalgraphics offers more powerpoint templates than anyone else in the world, with over 4 million to choose from. The indirect referent of a word is accordingly its customary sense. The reference of an expression, if it has one, is just what it denotes the objects that it is about. Frege on direct quotation1 abstract in a single short passage in on sense and reference frege outlines his conception of direct quotation wherein words must not be taken as having their customary reference, but rather refer to the words themselves or the words of another speaker. In on sense and reference frege approaches the topic of how language connects with the world, beginning with the potent observation that reference is not the only way language has meaning. Of course, this becomes obvious only later when frege wants to expand the sensereference schema to sentences. Freges argument about the sense and reference of a sentence. The methodology of these essays is to take apparent uniformity and affirm a distinction. The reference of names and predicates there is a sense in which, for frege, the foundations of the theory of reference are to be.
We here translate freges terms into english as sense and reference, respectively. Theyll give your presentations a professional, memorable appearance the kind of sophisticated look that todays audiences expect. Fregecompositionality, meaning, and indirect sensereference. Freges response to this objection is to distinguish between the direct sense and the indirect sense of a sentence. Freges theory of sense and reference although frege accepted something like the naive theory in his early work, he later rejected it for reasons like those given above. Extensionality, indirect contexts, and freges hierarchy.
Freges reasons for thinking that a theory of reference must be. On indirect sense and reference skiba 2015 theoria. The indirect sense of a sentence is its meaning to the subject of the main clause thought. The phrases the sense of a sentence, the thought expressed by a sentence, and the indirect reference of a sentence, are not mere synonyms.
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