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    It is not the case that Frege's refined view raises unresolved questions

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    • 1.It is unclear what the Sinn of an expression really is
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    • 2.It is unclear what 'presentation' amounts to
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    • 3.It is unclear what to say about a name with no Bedeutung
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    • 1.Frege's own criterion for Sinn—determining a referent via a 'mode of presentation'—generates a regress, since modes of presentation themselves require individuating criteria.
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    • 2.Dummett's extensive reconstruction in 'Frege: Philosophy of Language' concedes that Frege never gave a satisfactory account of what individuates two senses as distinct.
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    • 3.Without a principled individuation condition for Sinn, the sense/reference distinction cannot do the explanatory work Frege assigns it in solving the informativeness puzzle of identity statements.
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    • 1.Frege's treatment of empty names like 'Odysseus' assigns them Sinn but no Bedeutung, yet his compositionality principle entails that sentences containing them lack truth values entirely.
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    • 2.This consequence conflicts with classical logic's law of excluded middle and forces Frege into a three-valued or truth-value gap framework he never explicitly endorsed or systematically developed.
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    • 3.Russell's competing descriptivist strategy in 'On Denoting' avoids the empty-name problem by eliminating singular terms, exposing Frege's framework as structurally incomplete by comparison.
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