From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 25 1999 - 15:38:32 MST
'What is your name?' 'Robert Owen.' 'Do you deny having written the
following?':
> In Anscombe's analysis, using Frege, how can the pronoun "I" have "Sinn"
> but no "Bedeutung"?
Of course, one option which is fully open to Anscombe is simply to reply
"Well, Frege's wrong." :) Indeed, it may be the move *I* have to make in
order to reject dualism across the board.
But, then, I'm not sure how Frege would analyze a sentence like "it is
raining," where there is generally regarded to be no particular referent
for "it," and yet "it is raining" is not a sentence like "Odysseus sailed
throughout the Mediterranean," to which Frege might ascribe a
pseudo-thought.
Suffice it to say that whatever analysis Frege gives to "it is raining,"
Anscombe argues that he ought to do the same thing to "I am Frege."
> If there are three real, at least temporarily enduring objects, in this
> perceptual field, but only two are present visually, how does one dis-
> tinguish this situation from a remembered one in which all three were
> present simultaneously? [If necessary include a second party who at
> this time reports that all three are present visually.]
I'd USE the word "now." (Say it aloud, write it on my brain, etc.) I'm
just making the assertion that I don't need a quale to use the word
correctly.
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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