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Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language
Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language. Richard G. Heck and Robert May. Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by E. Lepore and B. Smith.
An investigation of Frege's various contributions to the study of language, focusing on three of his most famous doctrines: that concepts are unsaturated, that sentences refer to truth-values, and that sense must be distinguished from reference. Warning: This isn't directly related to programming languages. In fact, if you haven't studied Frege this paper might be quite puzzling. While not directly programming language related, I still think this paper might be of interest. Frege is quite an important figure in the history of logic, of course, and as we all know logic and computation are very much related to each other. In addition, this paper deals with the notions of function and predicate, and these notions are part of our standard terminology. Reading this paper might improve our understanding of these notions and their history, as well as the notions of equality vs. identity, and intensional vs. extensional view of functions (see the end of section 4). |
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