November 2019 Frege on Referentiality and Julius Caesar in Grundgesetze Section 10
Bruno Bentzen
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 60(4): 617-637 (November 2019). DOI: 10.1215/00294527-2019-0022

Abstract

This paper aims to answer the question of whether or not Frege’s solution limited to value-ranges and truth-values proposed to resolve the “problem of indeterminacy of reference” in Section 10 of Grundgesetze is a violation of his principle of complete determination, which states that a predicate must be defined to apply for all objects in general. Closely related to this doubt is the common allegation that Frege was unable to solve a persistent version of the Caesar problem for value-ranges. It is argued that, in Frege’s standards of reducing arithmetic to logic, his solution to the indeterminacy does not give rise to any sort of Caesar problem in the book.

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Bruno Bentzen. "Frege on Referentiality and Julius Caesar in Grundgesetze Section 10." Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 60 (4) 617 - 637, November 2019. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-2019-0022

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Received: 12 April 2017; Accepted: 29 June 2018; Published: November 2019
First available in Project Euclid: 30 September 2019

zbMATH: 07167760
MathSciNet: MR4019864
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00294527-2019-0022

Subjects:
Primary: 00A30

Keywords: Caesar problem , Frege , indeterminacy of reference , value-ranges

Rights: Copyright © 2019 University of Notre Dame

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