This paper aims to examine the general issue of how reference is possible in philosophy of language through a case analysis of the "double reference" semantic-syntactic structure of ideographic hexagram (guaxiang ...
Russell's letter to Frege of June 16, 1902 contains the famous paradox of the class of all classes which are not members of themselves as well as a second paradox of the predicates that cannot be predicated of themse...
Our ability to arrive at knowledge by chains of judgment is constitutive of our rationality, likewise our ability to discern the self-evidence of logical and arithmetical laws. To count an activity as "thinking about...
Frege argued that a predicate was a functional expression and the reference of it a concept, which as a predicative function had one or more empty places and was thus incomplete. Frege's view gives rise to what has b...