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    Challenges→Truth values are distinct from the senses (Sinnen) or Thoughts (Gedanken) of propositions.

    Frege's own context principle suggests that terms have meaning only in sentential contexts, which undermines treating 'The True' as a freestanding object separable from the thoughts that present it.

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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.
    Sentential context(in philosophy of language)
    The sentence or surrounding words that a particular word appears in; the environment that gives a word its meaning in that moment.
    context principle(Frege's methodological principle invoked to reframe how numbers can be epistemically accessible)
    Words have meaning only in the context of a proposition, not in isolation
    freestanding object(as describing what 'The True' might or might not be)
    Something that can exist or be meaningful on its own, without needing to be connected to anything else.
    the true

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    (Pascal's Wager)
    That which corresponds to reality; in Pascal's framework, implicitly identified with the existence of God.
    thoughts (in philosophical sense)(as the meanings that present or express truth)
    In Frege's technical vocabulary, not just mental ideas in someone's head, but the abstract meaning or content of a sentence that can be true or false.

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