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Frege says that these expressions have the same meaning but different senses. But what is essential about equation is that it is not necessary in order to show that both expressions, which are connected by the sign of equality, have the same meaning: for this can be perceived from the two expressions themselves.
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- 6.2321 And, that the propositions of mathematics can be proved means nothing else than that their…
- 6.2322 The identity of the meaning of two expressions cannot be asserted. For in order to be able to…
- 6.2323 The equation characterizes only the standpoint from which I consider the two expressions, that is…