frege against idealism
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…language is obviously possible, then it must be the idea theory of reference that is false. If ideas are private then the idealist would have to explain how language is possible since the ideas about an object are in ones head and no other person can have the same idea. So for Frege, language presupposes that there are intersubjective objects that we can talk about. Therefore, sense and reference are objective if language is possible.
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