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The last of Frege's many examples of tone happens to be comprised not of word-pairs, but of word-families. In his example of "walk"—'stroll"— 'saunter", "walk" is the general or core word — a hyperonym. The latter two — both hyponyms — signify particular ways of walking. Other hyponyms in this family include, e.g., 'stride" and "amble". Examples of this kind of relationship are quite familiar. We distinguish different "ways of looking", for instance, with hyponyms like "glance", "peer", 'stare", "gaze", "peek", and "peep". In "The Thought" (1918), Frege gives us another cluster of such terms: "horse", 'steed", "cart-horse", and "mare".

DOI: 10.1057/9781137263544_23

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