Before/during or after reading the paper, find out what the 'problem of the unity of the proposition' (sometimes called 'Bradley's regress') is. We'll be talking about it in class.
Thinking questions:
1. Why does Frege say "what is logically simple cannot have a definition". Do you agree?
2. What influence does the Linguistic Turn have on the arguments you find in 'On Concept and Object'
3. Is the concept horse a concept? Why?
4. Frege says he was not trying to give a definition of a concept, only 'hints'. He is confronted, he says, by 'an awkwardness of language'. What do you think of this?
5. Why is the behavior of a concept 'essentially predicative', and why does it matter?
6. Frege holds that concepts are unsaturated, and objects are saturated. What does this mean?
7. How might the saturated/unsaturated distinction help solve the problem of the unity of the proposition?
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