'parmenides Principle'
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Introduction The principle somewhat vaguely formulated by Frege (see above) and called ‘Parmenides Principle’ in a not published manuscript by Pavel Tichý, can be interpreted in two mutually complementing ways. First – the way exploited by Frege and Tichý – an expression cannot be said to speak about something without denoting (naming) this something; an analysis of an expression must not contain reference to an object that is not named in the expression. So naming should be a necessary condition of referring to an object. But here a question can arise: Should not be naming also a sufficient condition, i.e., should not the analysis respect all subsexpressions of an expression that denote an object? In Section I a closer specification of these two interpretations is given. What is talking about and denoting is explicated in Section II. Section III proposes an explication of an analysis of (an expression). Whether it is possible, in general, to connect an expression with one unambiguous analysis is being answered in the final Section IV. Since all the sections concern analysis of empirical expressions an important Appendix tries to answer our questions for the case of mathematical/logical expressions.
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