ABSTRACT
Frege affirms unequivocally that decisions (Entschlüsse) are not ideas (Vorstellungen). The reason for such a claim is that decisions are not subject to the mechanical laws of the mind and therefore are free. The proof of this thesis traces back to Lotze’s texts about freedom within the context of the controversy regarding materialism. The meaning of the Fregean thesis is manifest in his theory of judgment as choice (Wahl). An important consequence of this analysis is to evince the need to review the usual belief that Frege has said nothing about the problem of subjectivity based on a canonical text in which Frege delegates unequivocally to psychology the problem concerning how we apprehend thoughts.
