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    Frege's Detour by Perry, John;

    An Essay on Meaning, Reference, and Truth

    Series: Context & Content;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 15 December 2021

    • ISBN 9780192859648
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages168 pages
    • Size 215x134x8 mm
    • Weight 206 g
    • Language English
    • 221

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    Short description:

    John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.

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    Long description:

    John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege's innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he developed in "On Sense and Reference", the most studied essay in the philosophy of language, dominated twentieth-century work in the field and continues to be very influential. Perry explains and charts the development of Frege's views in this area, and argues that his doctrine of indirect reference directed philosophy of language on a long detour from which only now can we emerge. Perry advocates a move away from indirect reference and presents an alternative framework which does not require the abandoning of circumstances in the references of sentences.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Introduction
    Frege's Begriffsschrift: Accomplishments
    Frege's Begriffsschrift: Problems
    Sense and denotation: The Theory
    "On Sense and Denotation"
    Solving the Identity Problems
    Disarming the Slingshot
    Integrating Frege's Theories
    Episodes and Attitudes
    Conclusion
    List of examples

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