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Identity in Frege's Begriffsschrift: Where Both Thau-Caplan and Heck Are Wrong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Gilead Bar-Elli
Gilead Bar-Elli*
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem91905, Israel
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Frege's views on identity continue to provoke scholars, and rightly so. In particular his view in Begriffsschrift (Bs) of 1879, and its relation to his view in ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’ (SB) of 1892 deserve careful attention. The issues involved have a wider significance than Frege's specific views on identity in different periods, though these are important enough. They concern also the move from what I call below ‘thin’ semantics, which is exhausted in signs being assigned content, to a ‘thick’ semantics, in which ‘modes of determining their content’ (Bs), or Sinne (SB) are also concerned.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 355 - 370
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Copyright © The Authors 2006

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Frege's Writings:

Bs — Begriffsschrift, Halle, 1879. Reprinted (I. Angelelli, ed.) 1964,1998. English translation (S. Bauer-Mengelberg) in: From Frege to Godel, Heijenoort, J. Van ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1967.Google Scholar
FB — ‘Funktion und Begriff’ (1891), reprinted in Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung (G. Patzig, Heraus.), Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1975. English translation, ‘Function and Concept’ (P. Geach) in Translations From the Philosophical Writings of Frege, Geach, and Black, eds. Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1952: 21–41.Google Scholar
SB — ‘Sinn und Bedeutung,’ (1892) reprinted in Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung, English translation ‘On Sense and Reference’ (M. Black) in Geach, and Black: 56-78.Google Scholar
BL, — Basic Laws of Arithmetic (Furth, M., trans.). Berkley: California University Press 196Google Scholar

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