Think about this question from last time, which we didn't get a chance to address much:
3. Why must we not ask for the meaning of a word in isolation?
Also think about the following:
1. Frege offers what looks to be a promising and natural definition of number in passage 55 (pg 105 of the Beany). What is this definition and why does Frege reject it?
2. What is the Julius Caesar problem?
3. Frege offers an argument in passage 57 (pg 106 in Beany) that numbers must be objects. What is the argument, and what do you think of it?
4. What does Frege mean by an 'independent object'?
5. Frege says 'not every objective object has a location'. Do you agree?
6. What is Hume's principle?
7.Can we define numbers in terms of the extension of concepts? How?
8. Are numbers objects? Why/why not?
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