bryan.pickel@glasgow.ac.uk
The University of Glasgow
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brian.rabern@ed.ac.uk
The University of Edinburgh
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EH8 9AD, United Kingdom
Abstract
Goodman and Lederman (2020) argue that the traditional Fregean strategy for preserving the validity of Leibniz’s Law of substitution fails when confronted with apparent counterexamples involving proper names embedded under propositional attitude verbs. We argue, on the contrary, that the Fregean strategy succeeds and that Goodman and Lederman’s argument misfires.
Keywords: Substitution, Frege, Sense, Ambiguity, Opacity, Validity, Leibniz' Law
Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies