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    Challenges→There must be a difference in the world between the properties that the old and new concepts of color experience stand for or denote.

    A difference in concepts or modes of presentation does not entail a difference in the properties or referents those concepts pick out (Frege's sense/reference distinction supports this).

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    Key Terms

    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy)
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
    Referents(as used in logic and semantics)
    The actual things or objects that a word or term points to or stands for in the real world.
    Sense/reference distinction(as the philosophical distinction being invoked)
    Frege's famous theory that words have two separate aspects: their 'sense' (the concept or meaning in your head) and their 'reference' (the actual object in the world they point to).

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    concepts(Pietroski (2018))
    Mental representations of a certain kind
    modes of presentation(Theories of meaning since Frege's Sense and Reference)
    The aspect of meaning of a referring term that goes beyond its referent and accounts for differences in meaning between co-referring terms

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