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SUMMARY: Dominic Alford-Duguid colloquium: Does Frege’s Puzzle Generalise?
DESCRIPTION: UBC philosophy professor Dominic Alford-Duguid will give an in
 -person colloquium. The title and abstract are below. Does Frege’s Puzzle G
 eneralise?   Gottlob Frege’s seminal papers ‘On Function and Concept’ and ‘
 On Sense and Reference’ established a foundation for modern semantics. Thes
 e papers were also the birthplace of Frege’s famous (and infamous) distinct
 ion between sense and […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>UBC philosophy professor <a href="https://
 philosophy.ubc.ca/profile/dominic-alford-duguid/">Dominic Alford-Duguid</a>
  will give an in-person colloquium. The title and abstract are below.</p><h
 r /><div></div><div class="elementToProof"><strong>Does Frege’s Puzzle Gene
 ralise?</strong></div><div class="x_elementToProof"><i> </i></div><div clas
 s="elementToProof">Gottlob Frege's seminal papers ‘On Function and Concept’
  and ‘On Sense and Reference’ established a foundation for modern semantics
 . These papers were also the birthplace of Frege’s famous (and infamous) di
 stinction between sense and reference. Standard presentations of this disti
 nction appeal to cases that generate so-called ‘Frege Puzzles’. These are c
 ases that involve co-referential singular terms. Yet Frege (and later follo
 wers) understood the distinction between sense and reference to extend to e
 very category of semantically significant expression. Can this generalisati
 on be justified by appeal to Frege's puzzles beyond the singular case? This
  is the talk's framing question. At issue\, ultimately\, are the fundamenta
 l ambitions of semantic theorising: what must a semantic theory capture\, a
 nd why must it capture it?</div>
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