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Truth in Frege's ‘law of truth’

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I wish to thank Peter Hylton, from whom I have learned much in discussion of these issues, and whose comments upon a previous draft of this paper helped to give it its present shape. I must also thank two anonymous referees, who were most helpful on both specific and general points, and Axel Boldt, who helped with the German.

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Kemp, G. Truth in Frege's ‘law of truth’. Synthese 105, 31–51 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064102

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