In Herman Parret & Jacques Bouveresse (eds.),
Meaning and understanding. New York: W. de Gruyter. pp. 249-279 (
1981)
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Abstract
Whereas causal theories of proper names and of meaning — Putnam's say, or Kripke's — together with their related philosophies of language1, are trying to recover a pre-Fregean semantic innocence, other representative trends today explicitly declare themselves to be neo-Fregean. Yet I am attracted by neither a pre- nor a neo-Fregean style of semantic analysis, but by a trans-Fregean approach: going through Frege to end up somewhere quite remote from him...