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MCMP – Metaphysics and Philosophy of LanguageFregean CompositionalityThomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 June, 2015) titled "Fregean Compositionality". Abstract: The distinction between transparent and opaque contexts has always played a major rôle in theories of linguistic semantics, though it has undergone a number of reformulations and precisifications since its origins in Frege’s classical substitution arguments. Most dramatically, the unfathomable distinction between Sinn and Bedeutung has been recast in more perspicuous set-theoretic terms, trading Frege’s senses for Carnap’s intensions and identifying functions with their courses of values. Still, at least part of the Fregean architecture has survived all these transformations. In part...2015-07-0800 min