TY - JOUR AU - Ricketts, Thomas PY - 2007/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Quantification, sentences, and truth-values JF - Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia JA - Manuscrito - Rev. Int. Fil. VL - 30 IS - 2 SE - Artigos DO - UR - https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8643401 SP - 459-491 AB - <p>The paper maintains (1) that Frege's quantification of sentence positions motivates his identification of sentences as proper names of truth-values; (2) that this identification is fully compatible with the Context Principle; (3) that the relation of a thought to its truthvalue is the primary case of the relation of sense to meaning. The paper offers a reconstruction of Frege's defense of (1) in pp. 33-5 of “On Sense and Meaning”.</p><p> </p> ER -