In this reading, I agreed with Frege when he discusses how the terms "evening star" and "morning star" have the same referent, but each term has a different sense. In both terms, Frege is referring to the same object, Venus, but depending on whether one refers to Venus as the "morning star" or the "evening star" changes how we think about the referent. There is a dimension of time that differs in both these terms: we could either think of Venus as the planet we see when the day starts or when the day ends.
One thing that I disagree with Frege about is that each man's conception of a referent differs from that of another man's conception. It could be possible (maybe extremely rare) that two people do have the same conception of a referent.
A concept that I found confusing in the reading is when Frege talks about referents being "truth values". Is he saying that if a referent exists it has a "true" truth value, and if a referent doesn't exist it has a "false" truth value?
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