Answer all questions. Answer
each question separately. Please label your answers to each question
with the number of the question that you’re answering. Be extremely
carful not to confuse use and mention in your responses.
There is
a seven-page limit limit (not including the Sources Consulted page). You must
use 12-point font, double space the document, set 1-inch margins, and
include page numbers.
(1) In ‘On Sense and Nominatum’, Frege
introduces two possible analyses of the identity relation. What are
these two analyses? Pick a true identity statement, and carefully
explain how each theory would analyze it. Do the same for a false
identity statement.
(2) Frege gives an argument against one of
these views that begins with the line “The reasons that speak in its
favor are the following…” and ends with the line “This would express a
relation of a thing to itself, namely, a relation such that it holds
between everything and itself but never between one thing and another.”
(3) Frege’s next argument begins with
the line “But this relation could hold only inasmuch as they name or
designate something” and ends with the line “But this is just what we do
want to express in many cases.”
(4)
Explain Frege’s theory of sense and nominatum, and use it to defend the
first of the two views against the objection that you discussed in
question (2).
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