Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege

cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics. As a part of this attempted reversal of emphasis, Jaakko Hintikka has also called attention to the role Frege played in convincing almost everyone that verbs for being had to be treated as multiply ambiguous between the "is" of identity, the "is" of predication, the "is" of existence, and the "is" of class—inclusion — a view that had been embraced by few major figures (if any) before Frege, with ...