P eter G each and “The F rege Point”

P eter G each frequently showed the relevance of some of F rege's insights to contemporary philosophical debates, such as that which G each called “the F rege Point” – “a proposition may occur in discourse now asserted, now unasserted, and yet be recognizably the same proposition”. G each argued against a variety of “expressivist” accounts of certain propositions that their proponents could not explain the significance of such propositions in subordinate clauses. The paper extends G each's argument to show that “the F rege Point” presents a powerful challenge to any attempt, such as those influenced by the later W ittgenstein, to equate meaning with use.