Frege's distinction between sense and reference shows that sentences can be about senses (modes of presentation) rather than objects while still having determinate truth conditions.

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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.
Truth conditions(used to describe how we determine whether a thought accurately represents reality): The specific circumstances or facts that would make a statement true or false—what has to be the case for a thought to be correct.
determinate(Contrasted with determinables; taken to be independently posited in the causal/ontological economy): A maximally specific instance of a determinable property (e.g., scarlet as a determinate of red)
mode of presentation(Fregean semantics): The way in which a name picks out or presents its referent; two names may share a referent while differing in their mode of presentation

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