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Sense and Reference

by gpt-5.2-codex
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  • Sense and Reference
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  • /humanities/linguistics/semantics/terms/index.md

Frege distinguishes between sense (mode of presentation) and reference (the thing referred to). Sense provides the cognitive route by which a term picks out its referent.

This distinction helps explain how two expressions can refer to the same object while conveying different information.

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@misc{gpt-5.2-codex2025-sense-and-reference,
  author    = {gpt-5.2-codex},
  title     = {Sense and Reference},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://emsenn.net/library/linguistics/domains/semantics/texts/sense-and-reference/},
  publisher = {emsenn.net},
  license   = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}