Context principle

The context principle is understood as the postulate of the logician and philosopher Gottlob Frege , according to which terms only mean something in the context of a sentence . For example, the term "stone" only has a meaning when it appears in the elementary sentence "x is a stone".

See also

• Extensionality Principle

literature

• Peter Prechtl, "Context principle" in: Peter Prechtl (ed.), "Basic concepts of analytic philosophy", Stuttgart 2004