Fregean analysis and its appliance to sentences
2014-04-04
World Philosophy
2014198004
Kwon Byung Hoon
Before I give Fregean analysis to given sentences, there are a few terms that I have to clarify in the concept, which are 'name', 'sense', 'Bedeutung', and 'idea'. According to Frege, 'names' are lingual expressions that designate certain objects or concepts in the real word. Frege calls these objects or concepts 'Bedeutung', which means 'reference' in german. For example, Leonardo Dicaprio is a 'name', a lingual expression. The actual Leonardo Dicaprio himself, the man which the name Leonardo Dicaprio refers to, is a 'Bedeutung'.
In the designation process, name uses 'sense', to refer itself to Bedeutung. Sense is a 'definite description' of a Bedeutung, and it works as a bridge as you associate Bedeutung with its name. Using Leonardo Dicaprio as an example again, as you hear the name 'Leonardo Dicaprio', you instantly think of a sense that relates Leonardo Dicaprio(name) with Leonardo Dicaprio(Bedeutung), such as 'The blond guy who acted as Jack in the film Titanic'. As there are many ways to describe Leonardo Dicaprio without referring to the film Titanic, we can infer that there can be many senses to describe a certain Bedeutung.
And these senses are not 'ideas', because ideas are formed in mind and naturally subjective. A certain idea experienced by me cannot be experienced by you in an identical way that I experienced it, no matter how delicately I explain the idea to you. However, senses can be shared by people because there are no possible ways to interpret or experience a 'definite description', such as 'the blond guy who acted as Jack in the film Titanic' in any other way than other people sharing the sense with you. In Fregean analysis, sentences are considered as names too, which refers to 'truth value' as their Bedeutung. In this case, 'thought', which is a constitution of senses of individual names in the sentence, works as a sense of the sentence.
World Philosophy
2014198004
Kwon Byung Hoon
Before I give Fregean analysis to given sentences, there are a few terms that I have to clarify in the concept, which are 'name', 'sense', 'Bedeutung', and 'idea'. According to Frege, 'names' are lingual expressions that designate certain objects or concepts in the real word. Frege calls these objects or concepts 'Bedeutung', which means 'reference' in german. For example, Leonardo Dicaprio is a 'name', a lingual expression. The actual Leonardo Dicaprio himself, the man which the name Leonardo Dicaprio refers to, is a 'Bedeutung'.
In the designation process, name uses 'sense', to refer itself to Bedeutung. Sense is a 'definite description' of a Bedeutung, and it works as a bridge as you associate Bedeutung with its name. Using Leonardo Dicaprio as an example again, as you hear the name 'Leonardo Dicaprio', you instantly think of a sense that relates Leonardo Dicaprio(name) with Leonardo Dicaprio(Bedeutung), such as 'The blond guy who acted as Jack in the film Titanic'. As there are many ways to describe Leonardo Dicaprio without referring to the film Titanic, we can infer that there can be many senses to describe a certain Bedeutung.
And these senses are not 'ideas', because ideas are formed in mind and naturally subjective. A certain idea experienced by me cannot be experienced by you in an identical way that I experienced it, no matter how delicately I explain the idea to you. However, senses can be shared by people because there are no possible ways to interpret or experience a 'definite description', such as 'the blond guy who acted as Jack in the film Titanic' in any other way than other people sharing the sense with you. In Fregean analysis, sentences are considered as names too, which refers to 'truth value' as their Bedeutung. In this case, 'thought', which is a constitution of senses of individual names in the sentence, works as a sense of the sentence.