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The names of the true

Paolo Leonardi

pp. 67-85

Abstract

Frege's claim that sentences are names of truth-values, I argue, was drawn to fit the formal project, but it respects our pre-theoretical intuitions and does not undermine the sentence's central semantic role. I do a minimal work both on the expression and on its referent, connecting the sentence and the definite description, suggesting an intuitive referent for a true sentence, suggesting a motive for Frege's choice of the truth-values as referents, and finally suggesting an understanding of the False as a referent.

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Coliva Annalisa, Leonardi Paolo, Moruzzi Sebastiano (2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 67-85

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_4

Full citation:

Leonardi Paolo (2018) „The names of the true“, In: A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer, 67–85.