Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference

The compositionality of language: This is a video lecture about Frege’s groundbreaking 1892 paper ’On Sense and Reference’, which is sometimes translated from the original German as ’On Meaning and Nominatum’ though those are silly and obscure terms, so I don’t use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language course. This lecture covers the sense (mode of presentation) and reference (object referred to) of names, but also definite descriptions, and the fact that the sense of a full sentence is the proposition or thought expressed and the reference of a full sentence is the truth value of that sentence.