ABSTRACT

In terms of Gottlob Frege's distinction between the psychological and the logical and that of being true, language belongs fully to the psychological. Words are devices with which a being such as us might aim to achieve, to create, the representing of something as being something, thus to gain entry into the business of being true or false. As Frege argued at some length, liability to error is inherent in the possibility of truths and falsehoods uberhaupt. A thought's business is not to make anything recognisable, but rather to be, or identify, what would be made recognisable where thought-expression was achieved. Where a thought is 'invisible', a sentence had better not be. For, at the least, it is designed to be a content bearer. It is recognisable as the sentence it is simply by its place in the syntax of its language.