https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/8e36x8/freges_theory_of_judgment/
created by iunoionnis on 22/04/2018 at 13:21 UTC
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I was reading the article on "Brentano's Theory of Judgment" in the SEP. It says:
In contrast to Frege, he holds that judgements do not require the existence of complete thoughts or propositions which have to be grasped before a judgement is made. It is the mental act of judging, not its object or content, which is the bearer of truth-values.
Is there a good article by Frege that spells this out, specifically in relation to the topic of judgment? If a specific article comes to mind, what general essays by Frege would be worth reading on the relationship between propositions/thinking/judgment, etc. ?
Comment by voltimand at 22/04/2018 at 13:32 UTC
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I guess you're looking for primary sources, right? Well, if not, and if you can read German, you might want to check this article out:
Dölling, E., 1993, “Brentanos und Freges Urteilslehre—Ein Vergleich”, in: W. Steltzner (ed.), *Philosophie und Logik*, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 24–32.
(I believe this is cited in the SEP, and there are some other ones in there too, all in German. Sorry if you're only looking for primary sources! Perhaps someone else might want to chime in for that. At a minimum, I guess, the primary sources you'd want to read will be referred to in this article, so you can piggy-back off that.)
Comment by under_the_net at 22/04/2018 at 13:38 UTC
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The classic paper is 'Der Gedanke': Eine logische Untersuchung', which appears in *Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus I* (1918–1919), pp. 58–77. It was translated as 'The Thought: A Logic Enquiry' by Quinton & Quinton in *Mind* **65** (1956), pp. 289–311.
A good secondary source is Dummett, *Frege: Philosophy of Language*, Chapter 11.