CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE SENSE IN G. FREGE’S LOGICAL SEMANTICS

Abstract

The given article provides some views on the development of the problems of formalization and representation of a notion of «sense», which is being conceptualized by an outstanding German philosopher Gottlob Frege, and what’s mainly being analyzed and elaborated in his work “On Sense and Reference”. The key critical theories of understanding the notion of «sense» according to Frege are characterized in the conceptual aspect, that is, a paradigmatic concept that does not receive unambiguous fixation in further developments of logicians and philosophers in the analytic philosophy, but it is assumed as a functional multifaceted concept. In particular, we find examples of conceptualization in the classics of such analytical philosophers as L. Wittgenstein, B. Russell, R. Carnap, and A. Church.

Some of the modern works on this topic are analyzed, as well as some classical works in which, opinionate, the directions of the sense conceptualization in the Frege’s works were mostly reflected. We come to the conclusion about the presence of four basic conceptualizations, among which there are two groups: the exclusively logical ones, and the semiotics. Hence, we diagnose the need to deep down the study of the socio-cultural context of works of the analytical philosophy due to the topic. The possibility of the entry of analytical methods into the interdisciplinary study of the problem of sense is fixed there.

Method of conceptualization itself is considered and demonstrated by examples, which, on the one hand, are necessary for more detailed study of the development of ideas of analytical philosophy, and, on the other hand, as a source of rejection of irrelevant to the classical philosophy ideas and views. The proximity of the conceptualized semantic refinement on the paradigm method is investigated, from which it is concluded that conceptualization acts as a certain climate for new areas: formalization and representation. A separate consideration of these parts makes obvious the relationship between concepts of meaning and process of its gradual separation in the works of those analytical philosophers who has been developing this topic.