In Frege's best-known work 'On Sense and Reference' "two-thirds of the text is concerned with explaining how the distinction between 'sinn' and 'bedeutung' (sense and reference) applies to sentences. After it has been argued that the reference of a sentence is a truth-value, the remainder of the essay tries to show how apparent counter-examples to the claim can be accounted for."1 Frege makes progress in this doctrine by assigning thoughts to a different semantic level than that of truth-values. He also shows that "the paradigm of reference seems to be the relation between a name and what it names."1 After this he becomes occupied with his discussion of proper names ( the reference of the sentence) and definite descriptions (the sense of the sentence) then moves on to the seco

d[L] refers to the denotation of the name 'loves'.

Both mean the same thing, but for someone who does not know Italian they will just look at 'Esta frio' and wonder what it means. It has the same reference, but different sense.

d[j] refers to the denotation of the name 'John'.

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