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Frege's Detour: An Essay on Meaning, Reference, and Truth (Context & Content) by John Perry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege's innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he developed in 'On Sense and Reference', the most studied essay in the philosophy of language, dominated 20th-century work in the field and continues to be very influential. Perry explains and charts the development of Frege's views in this area, and argue
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- Author
- John Perry
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191850615
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Philosophy, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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