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If I had the time to study Church and the other authors Kripke cited on Frege, I would probably be a very happy man studying all the relevant literature. Davidson and Quine made me realise how Frege's problems with "indirect" senses is directly related to the problem of predication. I still have the notes from when I read this essay for the first time and I can see some of my own personal progress, which mainly consi

I read the Frege paper some years ago and always wanted to return to it. Now after having read the first chapters of Davidson's Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation, I finally do. I strongly agreed with Kripke's demand that indirect senses should be directly self-revelatory and with his his favouring of "frankly inegalitarian" ways of conceiving reference. i am curious about what I will think now about it.

I read the Frege paper many years ago and I was very impressed by Kripke's notion of having "direct acquaintance" with senses (reminded me much of Plato's talk of the philosopher's vision of the forms). Davidson's paper on learnable languages made me finally revisit it.

This is not a book that one "finishes". It just gets better. The papers dont have to be read in order.

"the Cartesian cogito might be an example of the contingent a priori."

"As I said, I was invited to speak on Kaplan, and under such circumstances one naturally emphasizes those points where one disagrees. (Having been invited to give a paper on Kaplan's material, my audience would not have been so enthusiastic if I could only remark, 'Yes, I agree, and this says it all'.)"