Nathan Salmon

Frege’s Puzzle

by Nathan Salmon

The idea is that the meanings of many of our words are simply things in the world they stand for, rather than ideas in our minds. This idea seemed revolutionary at the time because, since Frege, it had been thought that meanings must be internally and transparently accessible to our minds. No one had taken apart the Frege’s puzzle argument in a very convincing way until Nathan made real progress doing just that.

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