PHILOS 146 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Coppicing, Context Principle
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Reasons frege construes numbers as objects: relevant terminology, object a. i. a. ii. Every object can be numbered because it falls under some concept or other (lec 16: concept b. i. b. ii. The question is always what falls under it. Once a concept is defined things about it are objectively determined (lec 16) b. iv. We arrive at concepts by abstraction from ordinary objects (lec 16) b. iv. 1. Or we can arrive at a concept by starting from its defining characteristics, such that no object falls under it. b. v. b. vi. Has properties, which are different from marks/characteristics (lec 17) b. vi. 1. Body might have the property that at least one thing falls under it (property which applies to concepts) b. vi. 2. What goes into the explicit definition of the concept. Every object that satisfied body must satisfy extended, impenetrable: what is frege"s argument for his claim that numbers are objects, can say what number is not (58) a. i.
