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Frege Founded Analytic Philosophy
- Gottlob Frege founded analytic philosophy by systematically analysing language to clarify thought.
- He treated sentences as expressions of thoughts that are either true or false regardless of our ability to verify them.
Sense Versus Reference
- Frege distinguished parts of language and showed sentences express thoughts which can be true or false.
- He held that understanding a sentence involves grasping its sense, which determines reference together with the world.
Names: How Sense Lets Us Use Reference
- The sense of a proper name is the method for identifying its bearer, while the reference is the actual object.
- You can use a name effectively by knowing how to determine its bearer even if you don't know the reference fully.