Two Misconstruals of Frege's Theory of Colouring. (24th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sander, Thorsten
• Is Part Of: Philosophical quarterly. Volume 69:Number 275(2019:Apr.)
• Page Start: 374
• Page End: 392
• Publication Date: 2018-11-24
• Subjects: Fregean colouring -- Fregean tone -- Frege's pragmatics -- conventional implicature; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqy054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-8094

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Many scholars claim that Frege's theory of colouring (Färbung) is committed to a radical form of subjectivism or emotivism. Some other scholars claim that Frege's concept of colouring is a precursor to Grice's notion of conventional implicature. I argue that both of these claims are mistaken. Finally, I propose a taxonomy of Fregean colourings: for Frege, there are (1) purely aesthetic colourings, (2) communicative colourings or hints, (3) non-communicative colourings.