Frege's Realism

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 21 (1-4):218-221 (1978)
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In this note the claim is defended that Frege was a realist in the sense that he attributed causal efficacy to certain abstract objects. The arguments of Dummett and Sluga (cf. Inquiry, Vols. 18, 19, and 20 [1975–77]) to the contrary are criticized.

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Objectivity and reality in Lotze and Frege.Michael Dummett - 1982 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 25 (1):95 – 114.
II. Frege as Idealist and then Realist.Michael D. Resnik - 1979 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 22 (1-4):350-357.
I. interpreting Frege: A reply to Michael Dummett.Gregory Currie - 1983 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (3):345 – 359.
Recent work on Frege.Crispin Wright - 1983 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (3):363 – 381.
Ii. the origin of Frege's realism.Gregory Currie - 1981 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 24 (4):448 – 454.

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Logical investigations.Gottlob Frege - 1977 - Oxford: Blackwell. Edited by P. T. Geach.
Nachgelassene Schriften.R. H. Stoothoff - 1971 - Philosophical Quarterly 21 (82):77.
Studies on Frege.M. Schirn - 1979 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (4):418-422.

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