Abstract:It is well known that Frege was an extensionalist, in the following sense: he held that the truth‐value of a sentence is always a function only of (its syntax and) the references (the ‘extensions’) of its parts. One consequence of this view is that expressions occurring in certain linguistic contexts – for example, the that‐clauses of propositional attitude ascriptions – do not have their usual references, but refer instead to what are usually their senses. But although a number of philosophers have objected t… Show more
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