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    Frege's distinction between concepts and objects shows that predicative entities (concepts) resist the kind of self-predication that would make them 'one' in the same sense as objects.

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    Key Terms

    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.
    Objects
    Objects are things that exist in the physical or abstract world that we can think about, identify, and interact with. They can be concrete items like a chair or a phone, or abstract things like ideas, numbers, or feelings. Essentially, an object is anything that can be pointed to, described, or used in some way.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Predicative(as used in set theory)
    A restriction in logic where you can only define something using things that already exist, not by referring to a larger set that includes the thing you're defining.

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    Self-Predication(Third Man argument)
    A principle relied upon in the Third Man argument stating that a Form itself instantiates the predicate it corresponds to (e.g., the Form of Largeness is itself large).
    concepts(Pietroski (2018))
    Mental representations of a certain kind

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