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Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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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
— Apr 29, 2025 06:47AM
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Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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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.
— Apr 21, 2025 11:56PM
Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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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.
— Mar 31, 2025 02:30PM
