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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy
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The nature of reference, or the relation of a word to the object to
which it refers, has been perhaps the dominant concern of
twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Extremely influential
arguments by Gottlob Frege around the turn of the century convinced
the large majority of philosophers that the meaning of a word must
be distinguished from its referent, the former only providing some
kind of direction for reaching the latter. In the last twenty
years, this Fregean orthodoxy has been vigorously challenged by
those who argue that certain important kinds of words, at least,
refer directly without need of an intermediate meaning or sense.
The essays in this volume record how a long-term study of Frege has
persuaded the author that Frege's pivotal distinction between sense
and reference, and his attendant philosophical views about language
and thought, are unsatisfactory. Frege's perspective, he argues,
imposes a distinctive way of thinking about semantics, specifically
about the centrality of cognitive significance puzzles for
semantics. Freed from Frege's perspective, we will no longer find
it natural to think about semantics in this way.
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