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Which of Frege's writings is famous for arguing for two different types of meanings and descriptivism?

  • "The Ego and its Own"

  • "On Liberty"

  • "On Sense and Reference"

  • "The Social Contract"

Answer

Frege's "On Sense and Reference" is a seminal work in the philosophy of language, arguing for the existence of two different types of meanings for linguistic expressions: sense and reference. Sense is the "mode of presentation" of a referent, while reference is the object itself.
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