Frege’s Third Realm and the Structure of Thought
Abstract
Frege’s assertion that a third realm must be admitted between the external world of things and our subjective imaginations is frequently taken as an explicit confirmation that thoughts and logical objects in general are ideal things outside space and time and that this view makes Frege a platonistic realist. In this brief paper I offer some arguments as to why such a view might reveal a basic misunderstanding of Frege’s view.
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