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P eter G each and “The F rege Point”
Author(s) -
White Roger M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12078
Subject(s) - proposition , relevance (law) , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , variety (cybernetics) , point (geometry) , mathematical economics , epistemology , economics , mathematics , philosophy , political science , chemistry , statistics , law , geometry , biochemistry
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.