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Frege's Puzzle and Descriptive Enrichment
Author(s) -
SPEAKS JEFF
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00419.x
Subject(s) - citation , philosophy , computer science , library science
As is (very) well known, Millians about proper names face a prima facie problem in accounting for our intuitions about instances of Frege’s puzzle. The version of the puzzle I have in mind is this: sometimes two simple sentences can differ only with respect to the substitution of coreferential proper names, and yet one sentence seems to express a trivial and a priori proposition, whereas the other seems to express a non-trivial and a posteriori proposition. Consider, for example,