Answer each question separately. (Total 6-8 pages) Please label your answers to each question with the number of the question that you’re answering.

I’m trying to study for my Philosophy course and I need some help to understand this question.

Answer all questions. Answer each question separately. Please label your answers to each question with the number of the question that you’re answering. Be extremely carful not to confuse use and mention in your responses.

There is an 8-page limit (not including the Sources Consulted page). You must use 12-point font, double space the document, set 1-inch margins, and include page numbers.

(1) In ‘On Sense and Nominatum’, Frege introduces two possible analyses of the identity relation. What are these two analyses? Pick a true identity statement, and carefully explain how each theory would analyze it. Do the same for a false identity statement.

(2) Frege gives an argument against one of these views that begins with the line “The reasons that speak in its favor are the following…” and ends with the line “This would express a relation of a thing to itself, namely, a relation such that it holds between everything and itself but never between one thing and another.”

• Reconstruct Frege’s reasoning in a way that shows its logical structure. What are the premises of his argument? What is the conclusion of his argument? Try to make sure that your reconstruction of his argument is valid. Motivate each premise, and identify any implicit assumptions that Frege seems to be making. Present these assumptions in their most compelling light.

(3) Frege’s next argument begins with the line “But this relation could hold only inasmuch as they name or designate something” and ends with the line “But this is just what we do want to express in many cases.”

• Reconstruct Frege’s reasoning in a way that shows its logical structure. What are the premises of his argument? What is the conclusion of his argument? Try to make sure that your reconstruction of his argument is valid. Motivate each premise, and identify any implicit assumptions that Frege seems to be making. Present these assumptions in their most compelling light.

(4) Explain Frege’s theory of sense and nominatum, and use it to defend the first of the two views against the objection that you discussed in question (2).