Identity, doxastic co-indexation, and Frege’s puzzle

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ID12859564
AuthorsEros Corazza (0000-0001-8074-7777, Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume15
Issue2
Pages271-290
Publication date2018-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIntercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ip-2018-0007
OpenAlexW2799748611
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

I will argue that Frege’s puzzle arises only in taking into consideration the cognizer’s viewpoint. Although this sounds trivial, it triggers some important consequences. In particular, Frege’s puzzle has nothing to do with the notion of identity. For, the puzzle rests on whether the speaker/hearer (or writer/reader) conceives the names flanking the identity-sign to be co-referential or not (independently of whether they are de facto co-referential). I will show how Frege’s attempted solution in the Begriffsschrift can be rescued and how this may not conflict with the solution Frege proposes in introducing the sense/reference distinction. To do so, though, we should recognize that Frege worked with different (and somewhat conflicting) notions of content and that he assumed that only a single content expressed by an utterance should encompass all the information conveyed by a statement. In questioning this assumption Frege’s puzzle or a Frege-inspired puzzle can be addressed and understood from a different perspective

Doxastic logic · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Nothing · Perspective (graphical · Sign (mathematics · Statement (logic · Utterance · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History

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