Gottlob Frege On Sense and Reference

The compositionality of language: This is a video lecture about Frege s groundbreaking 1892 paper On Sense and Reference, which is sometimes translated from the original German as On Meaning and Nominatum though those are silly and obscure terms, so I don t use them. This is the second lecture in a philosophy of language course. This lecture covers the sense (mode of presentation) and reference (object referred to) of names, but also definite descriptions, and the fact that the sense of a full sentence is the proposition or thought expressed and the reference of a full sentence is the truth value of that sentence.