The role of variables

Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 605-631

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DOI: 10.5840/jphil20031001214     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. In §93 of Principles of Mathematics (London: Allen and Unwin, 1903).
2. Stated at the beginning of "Uber Sinn und Bedeutung," republished as "On Sense and Reference" in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, Peter T. Geach and Max Black, eds. (New York: Oxford, 1952).
3. In "Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den Formalisierten Sprachen," Studia Philosophica, I (1933): 261-405
4. and republished in translation in Logic, Semantics, and Metamathematics (New York: Oxford, 1955), pp. 152-278.
5. Cf. Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language (Cambridge: Harvard, 1973), pp. 15-16.
6. George Bealer is the leading contemporary advocate of this approach - see, for example, his "Completeness in the Theory of Properties, Relations, and Propositions," Journal of Symbolic Logic, XLVIII, 2 (1983): 415-26.
7. As in §1.5 of Methods of Logic (Cambridge: Harvard, 1982).
8. As in my article, "A Defence of Arbitrary Objects," Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume LVII (1983): 55-77
9. (reprinted in Fred Landman and Frank Veldman, eds., Varieties of Formal Semantics (Cinnaminson: Foris, 1984), pp. 123-42)
10. Some hints at how a semantics of this sort might be developed are given in my paper, "The Problem of De Re Modality," in Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, eds., Themes from Kaplan (New York: Oxford, 1989), pp. 197-272, here pp. 237-38. I hope to deal with the matter more fully elsewhere.
11. For more on the idea of a neutral relation, see my article "Neutral Relations," Philosophical Review, CIX, 1 (2000): 1-33.
12. "The Identity of Indiscernibles," in Michael Loux, ed., Universals and Particulars (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 204-16.
13. "A Puzzle about Belief," in Avishai Margalit, ed., Meaning and Use (Boston: Reidel, 1979), pp. 239-83.
14. "Synonymity" in Leonard Linsky, ed., Semantics and the Philosophy of Language (Urbana: Illinois UP, 1972), pp. 111-38.