Correspondence Computer-Generated Art, Music, and Literature: Philosophical Conundrums J o s e p h S. F u l d a P r o g r a m in C o m p u t e r Technology a n d A p p l i c a t i o n s C o l u m b i a University What exactly is the ..meaning of "meaning"? Until Frege's seminal paper in 1892, "Uber Sinn und Bedeutung"--"On Sense and Reference ' ' l - p h i l o s o p h e r s groped for an answer without much success. Frege's theory answered this question by observing that "H.G. Wells" has two sorts of meanings: reference, the man referred to, i.e., H.G. Wells himself, and sense, the meaning that H.G. Wells has for us, e.g., "The author of The Warofthe Worlds" and"The first true science fiction author." To Frege, every proper name has both a reference, also termed denotation, and one or more senses, also termed connotations. Various philosophical difficulties and paradoxes arise from the dichotomy of sense and reference, because neither aspect of meaning captures the other. Thus, reference does not capture the
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