Truth-Bearers in Frege and the Tractatus

• Authors: Silver Bronzo

Abstracts

EN

This paper argues that the Tractatus breaks deeply with Frege’s account of truth-bearers as mind-independent entities, and is closer to the act-theoretic approach recently defended, for example, by Scott Soames and Peter Hanks. For the Tractatus, the primary truth-bearers are facts-in-use, which essentially involve acts, as well as facts functioning as instruments of representation. The Tractarian account, it is further argued, can vindicate three platitudes that constitute the main motivation of Frege’s approach.

Keywords

EN

Frege; Wittgenstein; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; truth-bearers; propositions; thoughts; truth

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 31-53

Contributors

author

Silver Bronzo

• National Research University Higher School of Economics

Identifiers

DOI

10.18276/aie.2019.47-02

Biblioteka Nauki

1621589