Frege on Identity and Co-Reference

Year, pages: 2022, 26 - 46

In “Über Sinn und Bedeutung” (1892) Frege raises a problem concerning identity statements of the form a=b and he criticizes the view he holds in the Begriffsschrift (1879, § 8). In building on a suggestion by Perry (2001/12, ch. 7) I will show how Frege’s Begriffsschrift account can be rescued and how Frege’s 1892 criticism of his Be- griffsschrift’s position somewhat miss the point. Furthermore, the Be- griffsschrift’s view can be developed to account in quite an elegant way to the so-called Frege’s Puzzle without committing to the sense/reference (Sinn/Bedeutung) distinction Frege introduces in “Über Sinn und Bedeutung”. To do so we have, though, to give up the idea that all the relevant information conveyed by the utterance of a simple sentence is encapsulated into a single content. I will show of this can be done in adopting a Perry-style pluri-propositionalist model of communication.

Corazza, E. 2022. Frege on Identity and Co-Reference. In Organon F, vol. 29, no.1, pp. 26-46. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29102

Corazza, E. (2022). Frege on Identity and Co-Reference. Organon F, 29(1), 26-46. 1335-0668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2022.29102

Publisher: Filozofický ústav SAV, Filosofický ústav AVČR

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