The Kerry-Frege debate about object and concept: some remarks about Kerry's position

The controversy between Kerry and Frege on object and concept went down in posterity after Frege's 1891 article Über Begriff und Gegenstand, even if Kerry's objections which sparked Frege's explanation are dated 1887 as they appeared in the IV article of his series Über Anschaung und ihre psychische Verarbeitung . In truth, a real debate between the two philosophers never took place because of Kerry's premature death in 1889. This meant that Kerry could not reply to Frege and above all he could not define the presuppositions of his own positions, thus leaving room for a number of possible exegetic suppositions which I will analyse in this paper.