Objectivity and Objecthood: Frege’s Metaphysics of Judgment

Abstract

Argues that ontology is supervenient on logic for frege, that the meta-perspective of formal semantics is incompatible with his views, and that objectivity consists in being subject to logic - there being determinate facts about what contradicts what, what establishes what, etc..., rather than their being a relation to an external world. (Which is not to say that there is no relation.) This is what allows us to speak and reason together. Logic as most general truths, not schematic.