RT Journal Article
T1 Are Frege's thoughts Fregean propositions?
A1 Pérez Navarro, Eduardo
K1 Frege
K1 thought
K1 Fregean proposition
K1 relativized proposition
K1 unstructured proposition
AB One of the most pressing issues in contemporary semantics is whether propositions are structured entities that should be individuated in terms of their components or, contrarily, they lack structure and should be individuated in terms of their inferential relations. Another one is whether propositions should always contain all the information that is needed to deem them true or false—whether they should always be Fregean propositions. The latter debate might seem to presuppose a certain position in the former. However, it is the first aim of this paper to argue that the two debates are orthogonal. Moreover, we will use Frege’s thoughts as an example of what we would contemporarily call ‘propositions’ that, though trivially Fregean, lack structure. Since it is not uncontroversial that Frege’s thoughts are unstructured, it is the second aim of this paper to show that it follows from Frege’s writings that they are.
PB Brill-Rodopi
SN 0165-9227
YR 2020
FD 2020-06-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34758
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/34758
LA eng
NO Pérez-Navarro, E. (2020). Are Frege's thoughts Fregean propositions? Grazer Philosophische Studien, 97(2), 223-244.
NO This paper has been partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the grant FPU14/00485, by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Enterprise under the research project “Contemporary Expressivisms and the Indispensability of Normative Vocabulary: Scope and Limits of the Expressivist Hypothesis” (FFI2016-80088-P), and by the University of Granada under the excellence unit FiloLab-UGR. The author would also like to thank María José Frápolli, Neftalí Villanueva, Juan José Acero, Esther Romero, Manuel de Pinedo and David Bordonaba for fruitful comments and discussion.
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026