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الخميس، 16 ديسمبر 2010

Sense and Reference in semantics



    " Sinn und Bedeutung "..that what  The German philosopher Gottlob Frege proposed, According to Frege, sense and reference are two different aspects of the meaning :
The meaning of an expression be called sense (Sinn),
and if the expression refers to something, it has reference ( Bedeutung).

The sense of an expression is the thought it expresses

reference is the easy one, the words "my cat " for example  represent something outside the language something in the real world. but words like "and", "with", "before" and "where" cannot be referring  expressions.







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