Table of Contents

* Preface to the First Edition * Preface to the Second Edition * Textual References * Introduction * Sense and Tone * Quantifiers * The Hierarchy of Levels * Proper Names * Sense and Reference *Appendix: Note on an Attempted Refutation of Frege * Some Theses of Frege's on Sense and Reference * The Reference of Incomplete Expressions * The Incompleteness of Concepts and Functions * Indirect Reference * Assertion * Thoughts * Truth-value and Reference *Appendix: Note on Many-valued Logics * Can Truth be Defined? * Abstract Objects * Quantification * Identity * Original Sinn * The Evolution of Frege's Thought * Frege's Place in the History of Philosophy * Bibliography * Index

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Without question the most important philosophical book to have been published for at least a decade. -- Anthony Quinton

About the Author

Michael Dummett was Wykeham Professor of Logic, Emeritus, at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

Dummett's book is not just a book about Frege: it is an important contribution to all the topics on which Frege wrote, and an invaluable commentary on the work of many contemporary philosophical logicians. -- Alan Ryan * Guardian *
A splendid achievement. Not only does it give an illuminating and in the main a systematic account of Frege's views, but it displays many penetrating insights of the author's own on the important and difficult problems which they raise. In its honesty, rigour and acumen it establishes Dummett as one of the outstanding philosophers of the present time. -- A. J. Ayer * Listener *
A remarkable book. There are very few books of over 700 pages of which it is clearly true that not a page has been wasted... Philosophy can never be quite the same again after this book. -- Alasdair Maclntyre * Observer *
Without question the most important philosophical book to have been published for at least a decade. -- Anthony Quinton