Saying Something about a Concept: Frege on Statements of Number

History and Philosophy of Logic 42 (1):60-71 (2021)
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The paper gives a historically informed reconstruction of Frege's view of statements of number. The reconstruction supports Frege's claim that a statement can be 'about a concept' although it does not contain a singular term referring to the concept. Hence, Frege's philosophy of number is not subject to the problems Frege sees for singular reference to concepts.

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10.1080/01445340.2020.1810466

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