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Publication details [#9859]

Wallace, John. 1977. Only in the context of a sentence do words have any meaning. Mid-West Studies in Philosophy 2 : 144–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | reference

Person as a subject

Frege, G.

Annotation

Frege's second principle (indicated in the title) is reconstructed against a background of Tarskian semantics, and the consequences of this reconstructed principle for the idea of reference are explored.

Reprints

French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling and Howard K. Wettstein. 1979. In French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. Contemporary perspectives in the philosophy of language. Minnesota UP. pp. 305–325.