Re: Existence and presupposition

On 4 Sep 2005 13:22:59 -0700, "Paul Holbach"
<paulholbachDELETETHENAME@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > William of Ockham wrote:
> >
> > In any case I mentioned Frege only to show that the idea of
> > presupposition predates Strawson.
> >
> "Following Frege (1892), Strawson defined a presupposition as a
> necessary condition for a statement being either true or false."
>
> [Davis, Wayne (2005). /Implicature/:
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/implicature]
>
Funny thing! When I first read Strawson's famous article "On Referring"
(1950) I had the _intuition_ that Strawson is expressing some thoughts
he had taken -more or less directly- from Frege. [ More precisely: from
Frege's article "Über Sinn und Bedeutung" (1892). :-) ]

I'm rather glad that William of Ockham came up with this topic.
Obviously, my impression wasn't just illusory.


F.


P.S. If I remember correctly, Strawson didn't mention Frege as a
"source" in his paper, or did he?

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