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Frege's Detour: An Essay On Meaning, Reference, And Truth

by John Perry

2020-12-31 05:35:09

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John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege''s seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege''s innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he de... Read more
John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege''s seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege''s innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he developed in "On Sense and Reference", the moststudied essay in the philosophy of language, dominated twentieth-century work in the field and continues to be very influential. Perry explains and charts the development of Frege''s views in this area, and argues that his doctrine of indirect reference directed philosophy of language on a longdetour from which only now can we emerge. Perry advocates a move away from indirect reference and presents an alternative framework which does not require the abandoning of circumstances in the references of sentences. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.31 X 0.27 in
Print pages176
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date October 31, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198812821
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John Perry is Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University....

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