 In section 60 of the Foundations of Arithmetic (1884) Frege famously declares that only within a complete sentence do words have meaning. This has come to be referred to in the literature as Frege’s context principle. Frege writes that “it is enough if the sentence as whole has meaning; thereby also its parts obtain their meanings” (Frege [1884] 1950: section  60).[13]  On the face of it, this asserts that words have their meanings in virtue of the meaning of sentences in which they occur as constituents. This is incompatible with  (P),  but not with  (C).  Even if words are meaningful only because they occur as constituents within sentences, there could still be a function (perhaps even a single function across all possible human languages) that maps the structure of a sentence and the meanings of its constituent words to the meaning of that sentence.