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Frege on Referentiality and Julius Caesar in Grundgesetze Section 10

Bentzen, Bruno (2019) Frege on Referentiality and Julius Caesar in Grundgesetze Section 10. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 60 (4). pp. 617-637.

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This paper aims to answer the question of whether or not Frege's solution limited to value-ranges and truth-values proposed to resolve the "problem of indeterminacy of reference" in section 10 of Grundgesetze is a violation of his principle of complete determination, which states that a predicate must be defined to apply for all objects in general. Closely related to this doubt is the common allegation that Frege was unable to solve a persistent version of the Caesar problem for value-ranges. It is argued that, in Frege’s standards of reducing arithmetic to logic, his solution to the indeterminacy does not give rise to any sort of Caesar problem in the book.


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Item Type: Published Article or Volume
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCID
Bentzen, Brunob.bentzen@hotmail.com0000-0002-5987-7806
Keywords: Caesar problem, Frege, Value-ranges, Indeterminacy of reference
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Applicability
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Ontology
Depositing User: Dr. Bruno Bentzen
Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2020 15:31
Last Modified: 21 Apr 2020 15:31
Item ID: 17094
Journal or Publication Title: Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
Publisher: Duke University Press
Official URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1569830414
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1215/00294527-2019-0022
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Applicability
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Epistemology
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Logic
Specific Sciences > Mathematics > Ontology
Date: 30 September 2019
Page Range: pp. 617-637
Volume: 60
Number: 4
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17094

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