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Saying Something about a Concept: Frege on Statements of Number (2021)

Textor, Mark (Author)

History and Philosophy of Logic
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Pages: 60-71

DOI: 10.1080/01445340.2020.1810466

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2020.1810466

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The paper gives a historically informed reconstruction of Frege's view of statements of number. The reconstruction supports Frege's claim that a statement can be 'about a concept' although it does not contain a singular term referring to the concept. Hence, Frege's philosophy of number is not subject to the problems Frege sees for singular reference to concepts.

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