Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Reference/Frege/Anscombe: there is no way back from the reference to the meaning.
>Sense, >Meaning.
Each object has many modes of givenness or description modes.
>Way of givenness.
Intension/"I"/Anscombe: because of the peculiarity of the construction it succeeds to determine an object, despite the theoretically many possibilities of the way of being given: for we do not want to assume "Smith does not realize the identity with Smith".
>Intension.
If we consider the reflexive in the ordinary sense, this would be possible.
"I"/Special Reflexivum/Anscombe: the special reflexivum can only be explained from the point of view of the first person.
>First person.
Frege: we have not already understood the meaning when a person is told of what object a person will speak of when he says "I" whether he knows it or not.
>Fregean sense, >Fregean meaning.
However, the use of "I" ensures that the speaker knows it, but we still have a right to ask what he knows!