[Inquiry] Fractured Frege Tales

[Jon Awbrey]

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FFT.  Note 1

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| Questions such a whether or not there are any abstract objects,
| what abstract objects there are, what abstract objects are and how
| we know that they exist, what is the criterion for their existence,
| where the dividing line comes between concrete and abstract obbjects --
| all these are modern questions.  At first sight, such a contention
| appears ludicrous:  one might well think such questions to be as
| old as philosophy.  But the fact is that the notion of an "object"
| itself, as it is now commonly used in philosophical contexts, is
| a modern notion, one first introduced by Frege.
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| Michael Dummett, 'Frege:  Philosophy of Language', 2nd edition,
| Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981.  (1st ed. 1973).

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