The metaphysicians of meaning : Russell and Frege on sense and denotation / Gideon Makin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.

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Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous ""linguistic turn"". The Metaphysicians of Meaning is the first book to challenge the accepted secondary work on these two seminal papers, forcing us to reconsider the interpretation of these two vitally important works on meaning.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Russell -- 1. Russell's first theory of denoting -- 2. collapse of the first theory and the discovery of the theory of descriptions -- 3. place of 'On Denoting' in Russell's development -- pt. II Frege -- 4. From Begriffsschrift to sense and reference -- 5. Further considerations regarding sense and reference -- pt. III Russell and Frege -- 6. Russell and Frege compared -- 7. Russell-Frege enterprise and natural language -- App. A text of the obscure passage from 'On Denoting' -- App. B Russell's example in the latter half of paragraph (D) of the obscure passage -- App. C Some recent discussions of the obscure passage.

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