Course Reflection

I thoroughly enjoyed the first unit on sense and references. More specifically I enjoyed a lot of Gottlob Frege’s reading on sense and reference. In the past I never really thought about the association that a word has to the meaning. It wasn’t that I disagreed with the fact that a word can have different meanings depending on the context, but it was more of something that you only begin to think about once you are exposed to the idea. The particular reading I found interesting was Frege talking about the difference in meaning of two words that have the same reference, venus. Thinking about how the morning star and the evening star both refer to Venus, yet give a different meaning to venus was quite interesting. This expanded my view on thinking about how words can be referenced in many ways but still have different meanings depending on when or how you use the word.