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(1986) Frege synthesized, Dordrecht, Springer.
A logically perfect language (Begriffsschrift) should satisfy the conditions, that every expression grammatically well constructed as a proper name out of signs already introduced shall in fact designate an object, and that no new sign shall be introduced as a proper name without being secured a reference. The logic books contain warnings against logical mistakes arising from the ambiguity of expressions. I regard as no less pertinent a warning against apparent proper names having no reference. The history of mathematics supplies errors which have arisen in this way. ([7], p. 41; trns., [10], p. 70)
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4552-4_8
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Resnik, M. D. (1986)., Frege's proof of referentiality, in L. Haaparanta & J. Hintikka (eds.), Frege synthesized, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 177-195.
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