Joshua J. Peliño                                                                                               October 5, 2023

BA-Philosophy 3                                                                                Philosophy of Language

 

 

C. PEIRCE AND G. FREGE THEORY OF REFERENCE

 

Theory of reference has a big role in the development of language in the context of philosophy, two of the philosophers present different notion when theory of references was introduce. In the theory of Gottlob Frege, he argued that the meaning of linguistic expression is compose of both sense and its reference, concerned with singular term as definite description. In short, Frege’s theory emphasizes the distinction of sense and reference as a medium for logical analysis of language.

 

Charles Peirce on the other side, presents the notion of semiotics and pragmatism that he believed, signs acquire their meaning through their use and context. He includes the concept of firstness, secondness and thirdness which opens the understanding of signs and reference. In short, his notion is more semiotic and pragmatic that focuses on different modes of reference.

 

In presenting different notion of theory of reference, I come up with this idea that I think and most commonly and accepted idea of reference is the offer presented by Charles Peirce. I think that the idea of pragmatism and semiotics, can help us to acquire different notion presented by different facts and signs. Peirce declare that signs acquire their meaning through their use and context can leads us to the truth value of sentences.  Signs in semiotics can deceive us also. We cannot fully grasp the idea of semiotics in different views, it must be universal in order to prove it right. Senses can help us also by leading us to the factual sense, our sense can be our source of acquiring knowledge and formulating ideas that can be put in sentences. But we cannot deny the fact that senses has no assurance for us to conclude a certain facts, a facts can be doubted also because senses offers different point of views and senses can deceive us also.

 

But one thing I realize that Peirce’s theory just offer us not a full guarantee in the truth value of sentence but he gave us understanding to look beyond a specific and traditional way of acquiring knowledge.

 


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