Keywords
Frege's Puzzle
Syntactic form
Logical form
Natural language
Triviality
Syntactic form
Logical form
Natural language
Triviality
How to Cite
VALENTE, Matheus; BOCCARDI, Emiliano. Frege’s puzzle is here to stay: triviality and informativity in natural languages. Manuscrito: International Journal of Philosophy, Campinas, SP, v. 43, n. 1, p. 115–150, 2020. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8659495. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.
Abstract
Frege’s puzzling remarks on the beginning of On Sense and Reference challenge us to explain how true identity sentences of the form a = a can differ in cognitive value from sentences of the form a = b when they are made true by the same object’s self-identity. Some philosophers (e.g. Almog, Glezakos and Paganini) suggest that the puzzle cannot be set up in the context of natural languages since natural sentences, unlike those of regimented formal ones, do not wear their logical properties on their sleeves. In this paper we argue that, on the contrary, there exists a notion of coordination between names which is apt to track the relevant logical properties of natural sentences and therefore to set up the puzzle in natural languages. Frege’s puzzle is here to stay.
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CHALMERS, David J. Epistemic two-dimensional semantics. Philosophical Studies 118 (1-2):153-226, 2004.
EVANS, Gareth. The Varieties of Reference. Oxford University Press, 1982.
FIENGO, Robert & MAY, Robert. De Lingua Belief. Cambridge MA: Bradford Book/MIT Press, 2006.
FINE, Kit. Semantic relationism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
FREGE, Gottlob. Sense and reference. Philosophical Review, 57 (3):209-230, 1948/1892.
GARCÍA-CARPINTERO, Manuel. Two-dimensionalism: A neo-Fregean interpretation. In Manuel García-Carpintero & Josep Macià (eds.), Two-Dimensional Semantics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
GLEZAKOS, Stavroula. Can Frege pose Frege's puzzle? In Joseph Almog & Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The Philosophy of David Kaplan. Oxford University Press, p. 202, 2009.
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IACONA, Andrea. Logical Form: Between Logic and Natural Language. Springer Verlag. 2018.
KAPLAN, David. Words. Aristotelian Society Supplementary, 64 (1):93-119, 1990.
KRIPKE, Saul. A puzzle about belief. In Meaning and use (pp. 239-283). Springer, Dordrecht, 1979.
MACFARLANE, John. In What Sense (if any) is Logic Normative for Thought?, unpublished manuscript, 2004.
PAGANINI, Elisa. Informative Identities: A Challenge for Frege’s Puzzle. Dialectica, 70 (4), pp. 513-530, 2016.
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RECANATI, François. Mental Files. Oxford University Press, 2012.
RECANATI, François. Mental Files in Flux. Oxford University Press, 2016.
RUSSELL, Bertrand. The philosophy of logical atomism. La Salle: Open Court, 1998.
SALMON, Nathan. Recurrence. Philosophical Studies, 159, 407-441, 2012.
TAYLOR, Kenneth. Names as Devices of Explicit Co-reference. Erkenntnis 80(S2):235-262, 2015.
UNNSTEINSSON, Elmar. Frege’s Puzzle is about Identity After All. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2019) 99(3):628-643, 2019.
YALCIN, Seth. Epistemic Modals. Mind 116 (464):983-1026, 2007.
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus logico-philosophicus. London: Routledge, 1992.
ZALTA, Edward N., Gottlob Frege, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/frege/.
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