Contributions

  • Frauchiger, Michael - Contributor

Publication

2013 - Walter de Gruyter Inc., Berlin/Boston

Word Count

90,500 words, Guess

Page Count

362 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10311032301X
  • ISBN-139783110323016
  • Better World Books9783110323016
  • Open LibraryOL31372559M

Description

In this essay I first identify some desiderata for a theory of reference that appear in Føllesdal’s later work (Section 1). We will see that these desiderata are highly Fregean in character. Next I outline a Frege-inspired theory of (a certain core form of) reference that I have been developing in my own work (Section 2). Finally I argue that this theory (as far as it goes) satisfies Føllesdal’s desiderata (Section 3). In particular, I argue that, when the distinction between semantics proper and the theory of reference is carefully heeded, my Frege-inspired theory of reference can be seen to be fully compatible with Føllesdal’s “two-sorted semantics.” The Fregeanism that I advocate is thus highly selective: its only direct concern is the theory of reference, not semantics proper.

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