Titlebook: Varieties of Tone; Frege, Dummett and t Richard D. Kortum Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013 bib

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Historical Preliminariesr U.S. President Bill Clinton appreciated just how much depends on the meaning of ‘is’. Aristotle, whofirst worked out a system of formal deductive relations, devoted considerable attention to matters of language and meaning. The opening section of his treatise . runs like this:

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Frege’s Hints and Colorse Greeks defeated the Persians’ and ‘At Platea the Persians were defeated by the Greeks’, a difference he attributes to the relative importance of subject or object to the interests of the speaker or hearer (1879: §3).

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Introduction. This is especially true when the familiar is looked at from an unusual perspective or within an unfamiliar context. But it must also be said that questions about meaning are not interesting .. Questions about meaning are not idle. The ultimate question ‘What . meaning?’ is of the same order as tho

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Frege’s Ingredients of Meaningalf a philosopher.”. If he had done nothing else besides inventing modern predicate logic with the introduction of quantifiers and variables into his function-and-argument approach to analyzing sentences, Frege’s elevated place in the history of both logic and the philosophy of logic would be assure

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Theory of Meaning: Dummett’s Canonical Frameworkard Hare, Erik Stenius, and Donald Davidson, whose accounts differ very little apart from terminology and notation.. Frege originally restricted his account to declarative sentences, but later extended it to their corresponding interrogatives. That he explicitly refrained from extending it to impera

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Frege’s Hints and Colorstic meaning. That Frege himself does not put it quite this way warrants no splitting of hairs. He evidently never employs a word for our intuitive notion of meaning, reserving the German word . for a more specialized use associated with the object referred to, or meant. From his earliest writings Fr