Philosophy of Language by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461640875
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

IV

In understanding the sentence “Today is fine,” said on d1, one can be regarded as having a Fregean thought, but is it a thought which one can have on any other day? Frege appears to have thought that it is:

If someone wants to say the same today as he expressed yesterday using the word “today,” he must replace this word with “yesterday.”19

Frege appears to have held that to have on d2 just the thought which one has when one thinks “Today is fine” on d1, one must think “Yesterday was fine.” Presumably this means that it is possible for someone reading yesterday’s newspaper to understand sentences like:

(9) The prime minister is holding a cabinet meeting today

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