Tolerating Sense Variation

Eliot Michaelson; Mark Textor

doi:10.1080/00048402.2021.1951311

Tolerating Sense Variation

Eliot Michaelson, Mark Textor

Philosophy

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Frege famously claimed that variations in the sense of a proper name can sometimes be ‘tolerated’. In this paper, we offer a novel explanation of this puzzling claim. Frege, we argue, follows Trendelenburg in holding that we think in language—sometimes individually and sometimes together. Variations in sense can be tolerated in just those cases where we are using language to coordinate our actions but are not engaged in thinking together about an issue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	182-196
Number of pages	15
Journal	AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
Volume	101
Issue number	1
Early online date	9 Aug 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2021.1951311
Publication status	Published - 23 Feb 2023

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