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    It is not the case that Frege's distinction between sense and reference shows that identity statements can carry substantive cognitive content, even when the relata are identical.

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    • 1.The informativeness of identity statements derives from linguistic/epistemic factors, not from the distinction between sense and reference itself.
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    • 2.If identity is a relation between objects, then "a=b" expresses the same fact regardless of sense; cognitive content differences lie elsewhere in cognition.
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    • 3.Frege's framework conflates semantic meaning with psychological processing, making sense-based explanations unclear about what makes claims substantive.
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    • 1."Morning Star" and "Evening Star" refer to the same object (Venus) but have different senses, making "Morning Star is Evening Star" informatively valuable.
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    • 2.Sense involves the mode of presentation of a reference; two names can present the same object through different conceptual routes, enabling genuine discovery.
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    • 3.Identity statements between co-referential terms convey substantive information about how we conceptually access reality, not merely about metaphysical identity.
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