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Frege's Puzzle

By Nathan Salmon

Book information

Publisher
Ridgeview Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
0924922052, 0924922559
DOI
10.2307/2185233
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (40037725 bytes)
Pages
194\211
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-11-05 03:35:37

Description

The nature of the information content of declarative sentences is a central topic in the philosophy of language. The natural view that a sentence like "John loves Mary" contains information in which two individuals occur as constituents is termed the naive theory, and is one that has been abandoned by most contemporary scholars. This theory was refuted originally by philosopher Gottlob Frege. His argument that the naive theory did not work is termed Frege's puzzle, and his rival account of information content is termed the orthodox theory.

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