BOOK REVIEWS About a mature theory of Fregean sense
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The book develops a theory of Fregean sense to a mature form. It consists of only five chapters, which is perhaps surprising given its volume. The first chapter, “A programme of general semantics”, describes the philosophical foundations of procedural semantics informally and then presents the technical fundamentals of this programme. This chapter is crucial for the comprehension of the book, as without knowing its content the reader is not able to understand almost anything of the rest of the book. In the second chapter concepts are introduced and many issues typically connected with concepts are solved and explained, such as synonymy, empirical vs. mathematical concepts (an important distinction), anti-actualism, different kinds of context, and the de re/de dicto distinction. The third chapter is concerned mainly with definite descriptions, proper names, pragmatically incomplete meanings and anaphora. In the fourth chapter an original concept of requisite is introduced and applied to the resolution of such problems as: intensional essentialism, property modification, necessity and counterfactuals. The last chapter, entitled “Attitudes and information”, concerns propositional attitudes, notional attitudes, ‘quantifying-in’, information and inference. It is primarily a book devoted to the philosophy of language and only secondarily to the
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