- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:51:17 -0500
- To: "Marc de Graauw" <marc@marcdegraauw.com>, "'John Cowan'" <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: "'Technical Architecture Group WG'" <www-tag@w3.org>
>|(Minor note: Frege said that names have no sense, but I think that's false; >| "Fido" has the sense "dog", for instance.) > >That would be Kripke et. al. Frege says "The sense of a proper name is grasped >by everybody who is sufficiently familiar with the language..." in "Sense and >Reference" [1] But he is there using "proper name" in a different, er, sense. See footnote 4 on page 24 of the cited reference, where he refers to "an actual proper name such as 'Aristotle' ", and says that opinions may differ. Indeed. Frege was a great early master, but his sense/reference doctrine is at best lacking in precision and has never been able to support the theoretical weight he intended it to have. I know of no adequate modern (i.e. precise) account of the 'sense' of an "actual" proper name (in the linguistic sense, typically a personal name written with capitalization.) Pat > >Marc de Graauw > >http://www.marcdegraauw.com > >[1] http://mind.ucsd.edu/syllabi/00-01/phil235/a_readings/frege_S&R.html -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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