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  1. Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie.Christoph Demmerling, Wolfgang Kienzler & Tabea Rohr (eds.) - 2023 - De Gruyter.
    Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), begründete nicht nur die moderne Logik, sondern auch die Sprachphilosophie. Er erweiterte die funktionale Analyse der Sätze zu einer Systematik des gesamten sprachlichen Bedeutens und Ausdrucks, indem er zwischen den Zeichen selbst, dem Sinn und der Bedeutung der Zeichen unterschied. Dieser Band versammelt Kommentare und Analysen zu den drei klassischen Aufsätzen Funktion und Begriff (1891), Über Sinn und Bedeutung und Über Begriff und Gegenstand (beide 1892). Er verschafft dadurch einen fundierten Überblick sowohl zu den Kernproblemen wie auch (...)
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  2. Frege's equivalence thesis and reference failure.Nathan Hawkins - 2021 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 28 (1):198-222.
    Frege claims that sentences of the form ‘A’ are equivalent to sentences of the form ‘it is true that A’ (The Equivalence Thesis). Frege also says that there are fictional names that fail to refer, and that sentences featuring fictional names fail to refer as a result. The thoughts such sentences express, Frege says, are also fictional, and neither true nor false. Michael Dummett argues that these claims are inconsistent. But his argument requires clarification, since there are two ways The (...)
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  3. On Different Ways of Being Equal.Bruno Bentzen - 2020 - Erkenntnis 87 (4):1809-1830.
    The aim of this paper is to present a constructive solution to Frege's puzzle (largely limited to the mathematical context) based on type theory. Two ways in which an equality statement may be said to have cognitive significance are distinguished. One concerns the mode of presentation of the equality, the other its mode of proof. Frege's distinction between sense and reference, which emphasizes the former aspect, cannot adequately explain the cognitive significance of equality statements unless a clear identity criterion for (...)
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  4. Frege on identity, cognitive value, and subject matter.John Perry - 2019 - In Studies in language and information. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information.
    Frege continues by explaining what bothered him in the Begriffsschrift, and motivated his treatment of identity in that work.2 He goes on to criticize that account. By the end of the paragraph, he has introduced his key concept of sinn, abandonning not only the Begriffsschrift account of identity, but its basical semantical framework. In the Begriffsschrift Frege’s main semantic concept was content [Inhalt ]. Already in the Begriffsschrift, he is struggling with this concept. In §3 he..
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  5. Frege’s puzzle is about identity after all.Elmar Unnsteinsson - 2019 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (3):628-643.
    Many philosophers have argued or taken for granted that Frege's puzzle has little or nothing to do with identity statements. I show that this is wrong, arguing that the puzzle can only be motivated relative to a thinker's beliefs about the identity or distinctness of the relevant object. The result is important, as it suggests that the puzzle can be solved, not by a semantic theory of names or referring expressions as such, but simply by a theory of identity statements. (...)
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  6. Frege on subject matter and identity statements.Eros Corazza & Kepa Korta - 2015 - Analysis 75 (4):562-565.
    In formulating the puzzle about cognitive significance in ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’, Frege rejects the approach he suggested in the Begriffsschrift on the ground that if the utterance of a sentence of the form a = b is understood as ‘a’ and ‘b’ referring to the same object we lose the subject matter. In this note, we will show how Frege’s concerns can be understood and circumvented.
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  7. Frege on identity: the transition from Begriffsschrift to Über Sinn und Bedeutung.Sorin Costreie - 2012 - Logos and Episteme 3 (3):297-308.
    The goal of the paper is to offer an explanation why Frege has changed his Begriffsschrift account of identity to the one presented in Über Sinn und Bedeutung. The main claim of the paper is that in order to better understand Frege’s motivation for the introduction of his distinction between sense and reference, which marks his change of views, one should place this change in its original setting, namely the broader framework of Frege’s fundamental preoccupations with the foundations of arithmetic (...)
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  8. Frege on Identity. The Transition from Begriffsschrift to Über Sinn und Bedeutung.Valentin Sorin Costreie - 2012 - Logos and Episteme 3 (2):297-308.
    The goal of the paper is to offer an explanation why Frege has changed his Begriffsschrift account of identity to the one presented in Über Sinn und Bedeutung.The main claim of the paper is that in order to better understand Frege’s motivation for the introduction of his distinction between sense and reference, which marks his change of views, one should place this change in its original setting, namely the broader framework of Frege’s fundamental preoccupations with the foundations of arithmetic and (...)
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  9. What Frege’s Theory of Identity is Not.Robert May - 2012 - Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 1 (1):41-48.
    The analysis of identity as coreference is strongly associated with Frege ; it is the view in Begriffsschrift, and, some have argued, henceforth throughout his work. This thesis is incorrect: Frege never held that identity is coreference. The case is made not by interpretation of “proof-quotes”, but rather by exploring how Frege actually deploys the concept. Two cases are considered. The first, from Grundgesetze, are the definitions of the core concepts, zero and truth; the second, from Begriffsschrift, is the validity (...)
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  10. Frege on Identity as a Relation of Names.Dale Jacquette - 2011 - Metaphysica 12 (1):51-72.
    This essay offers a detailed philosophical criticism of Frege’s popular thesis that identity is a relation of names. I consider Frege’s position as articulated both in ‘On Sense and Reference’, and in the Grundgesetze, where he appears to take an objectual view of identity, arguing that in both cases Frege is clearly committed to the proposition that identity is a relation holding between names, on the grounds that two different things can never be identical. A counterexample to Frege’s thesis is (...)
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  11. Words and (Possible) Worlds: A Philosophical Study of Reference.Alik Pelman - 2010 - LAP.
    Words and (Possible) Worlds is a study of the relation between language and reality; between words and world. It is a study of reference. Analysing reference often leads to addressing fundamental issues in semantics, metaphysics and epistemology, thus suggesting the close links of reference to these three realms. By utilising the powerful tool of possible-worlds analysis, Alik Pelman carefully explores these links, and elegantly integrates them into a clear and unified model of reference. In the course of his study, Pelman (...)
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  12. Hume and Frege on identity.John Perry - 2009 - Philosophical Studies 146 (3):413-423.
  13. Wittgensteinian Tableaux, Identity, and Co-Denotation.Kai F. Wehmeier - 2008 - Erkenntnis 69 (3):363-376.
    Wittgensteinian predicate logic (W-logic) is characterized by the requirement that the objects mentioned within the scope of a quantifier be excluded from the range of the associated bound variable. I present a sound and complete tableaux calculus for this logic and discuss issues of translatability between Wittgensteinian and standard predicate logic in languages with and without individual constants. A metalinguistic co-denotation predicate, akin to Frege’s triple bar of the Begriffsschrift, is introduced and used to bestow the full expressive power of (...)
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  14. Identity in Frege’s Begriffsschrift: Where Both Thau-Caplan and Heck Are Wrong.Gilead Bar-Elli - 2006 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (3):355-370.
    Frege’s views on identity continue to provoke scholars, and rightly so. In particular his view in Begriffsschrift of 1879, and its relation to his view in ‘Über Sinn und Bedeutung’ of 1892 deserve careful attention. The issues involved have a wider significance than Frege’s specific views on identity in different periods, though these are important enough. They concern also the move from what I call below ‘thin’ semantics, which is exhausted in signs being assigned content, to a ‘thick’ semantics, in (...)
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  15. Frege on Identity and Identity-Statements: A Reply to Thau and Caplan.Richard G. Heck - 2003 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (1):83-102.
    The paper argues, as against Thau and Caplan, that the traditional interpretation that Frege abandoned his earlier views about identity and identity--statements is correct.
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  16. Frege on identity statements.Robert May - 2001 - In C. Cecchetto, G. Chierchia & M. T. Guasti (eds.), Semantic Interfaces: Reference, Anaphora, and Aspect. CSLI Publications. pp. 1-51.
    *I am very pleased to be able to contribute this paper to a festschrift for Andrea Bonomi. This is not however, the paper I really wanted to write; I would have much rather have contributed a paper comparing the pianistic styles of Lennie Tristano and Bill Evans, which I think Andrea would have found much more fascinating than an essay devoted to an understanding of Frege’s thinking. But I do not totally despair. Andrea’s first paper published in English was entitled (...)
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  17. (1 other version)Frege über Identität.Rosemarie Rheinwald - 2001 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 4.
    In his paper Über Sinn und Bedeutung Frege discusses different views of identity but it is left open which of these views he ultimately holds. The theses that identity is a relation between objects, that it is a relation between names, and that it is no relation at all, seem to contradict each other. Remarkably, each of these three theses have been proposed as describing Frege's view. It is the aim of the paper to explain why there are such divergent (...)
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  18. Frege on identities.Philip Hugly & Charles Sayward - 2000 - History and Philosophy of Logic 21 (3):195-205.
    The idea underlying the Begriffsschrift account of identities was that the content of a sentence is a function of the things it is about. If so, then if an identity a=b is about the content of its contained terms and is true, then a=a and a=b have the same content. But they do not have the same content; so, Frege concluded, identities are not about the contents of their contained terms. The way Frege regarded the matter is that in an (...)
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  19. 7 Identity and Frege’s Foundations for Arithmetic.David B. Haley - 1997 - In Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics: On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 57-72.
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  20. Rethinking Identity and Metaphysics: On the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy.Claire Ortiz Hill - 1997 - Yale University Press.
    Two hundred years ago, J.M.W. Turner packed up two large leatherbound sketchbooks, pencils, and watercolors and set off for the north of England. When he returned from the tour that he regarded as one of the most important of his career, Turner had completed more than two hundred sketches - works that later became the basis of more than fifty major oil paintings and watercolors. For this illustrated book, David Hill has taken photographs of many of the actual sites Turner (...)
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  21. Identity and cardinality: Geach and Frege.William P. Alston & Jonathan Bennett - 1984 - Philosophical Review 93 (4):553-567.
    P. T. Geach, notoriously, holds the Relative Identity Thesis, according to which a meaningful judgment of identity is always, implicitly or explicitly, relative to some general term. ‘The same’ is a fragmentary expression, and has no significance unless we say or mean ‘the same X’, where ‘X’ represents a general term (what Frege calls a Begriffswort or Begriffsausdruck). (P. T. Geach, Mental Acts (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957), p. 69. I maintain that it makes no sense to judge whether (...)
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  22. Frege's Bergiffsschrift Theory of Identity.Richard L. Mendelsohn - 1982 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 20 (3):279-299.
  23. Frege on Identity.Jan Dejnozka - 1981 - International Studies in Philosophy 13 (1):31-41.
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  24. Frege on Identity.Stephen Bernhardt - 1980 - Journal of Critical Analysis 8 (3):57-65.
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  25. Frege: Existence and Identity.Jan Christopher Dejnozka - 1979 - Dissertation, The University of Iowa
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  26. Frege on identity sentences.Ronald E. Nusenoff - 1979 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 39 (3):438-442.
    Interpretations from the past 30 years of frege's explanation of the cognitive value of identity sentences are considered. Frege's explanation, Which the author finds superior to any of these interpretations, Is that 'a=b' has greater cognitive value than 'a=a' because, Given that 'a' and 'b' are different sign-Types, The sense of 'a' "may" (though it need not) differ from that of 'b'. It is pointed out that this interpretation of frege shows that his problem with identity sentences can be resolved (...)
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  27. Frege's difficulties with identity.Robert Ray - 1977 - Philosophical Studies 31 (4):219 - 234.
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  28. Frege and Wittgenstein on Identity, Logic, and Number.Steven Frederick Savitt - 1972 - Dissertation, Brandeis University
  29. On identity and interchangeability in Leibniz and Frege.Ignacio Angelelli - 1967 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 8 (1-2):94-100.