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Frege: Sense and reference


`We are therefore driven into accepting the truth-value of a sentence as constituting its reference.' Explain and evaluate.


Key readings

Frege (1984c)

(Dummett, 1973, chs. 6 (§§1-4, 7), 12 (pp. 401-17))

(Noonan, 2001, ch. 5)


Further readings

(Dummett, 1981, pp. 158-52)

(Barwise and Perry, 1983, 3-26)




Sandy Berkovski