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Hans Sluga has recently proposed reading Frege from an historical standpoint. He and several other Frege commentators have insisted that Frege’s concept of sense is a cognitive and not a linguistic concept. With both of these suggestions, I am in general agreement. I will however comment on both and indicate how they are to be understood and within what limits.
Originally appeared in Journal of the History of Philosophy XXIII, 1985, 237–248.
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Hans Sluga, Gottlob Frege ( London: Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1981 ), 3.
Michael Dummett, The Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy ( London: Duckworth, 1981 ), 528.
Hans Sluga, Gottlob Frege, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980.
Gregory Currie, Frege, An Introduction to His Philosophy ( New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1982 ), 167.
Hans Sluga, “Semantic Content and Cognitive Sense,” (unpublished paper), fn. 4.
Hans Sluga, Gottlob Frege,154.
Tyler Burge, “Sinning against Frege,” Philosophical Review, 88 (1979): 398–432.
Ibid.: 405.
See esp. Michael Dummett, Frege: The Philosophy of Language ( London: Duckworth, 1973 ), 679.
Gottlob Frege, The Foundations of Arithmetic ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1953 ), 36.
Gottlob Frege, Kleine Schriften ( Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967 ), 359.
Gottlob Frege, Posthumous Writings ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1980 ), 145.
Edmund Husserl, Logical Investigations,trans. J.N. Findlay (New York: Humanities Press, 1970), 1:316.
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Mohanty, J.N. (1999). In Search of the Actual Historical Frege. In: Logic, Truth and the Modalities. Synthese Library, vol 278. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2113-4_5
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