Bucephalus the Beautiful

Frege uses the example of Bucephalus to elucidate the distinctions between conception (Vorstellung), sense (Sinn) and referent (Bedeutung).  Bucephalus is the name of Alexander the Great's horse.  The referent of the name is the actual horse that existed.  The referent is an object in the world.

The sense for the name is the mode of presentation that is used to refer to the horse.  It can be represented as <Bucephalus>, using brackets to indicate that we are no longer talking about the horse itself, but we are talking about the mode of representation, or manner of conceiving the thing.  We're not talking about the thing (referent) or the word (sign).  We're talking about the way in which we are talking/thinking/writing about the horse.  In Frege's terms, we're talking about what is expressed by the sign.



                                                                                           

The conception for the same name will be very different depending on who is thinking about the name.  The conception means the subjective set of experiences and feelings one has when they think about that name.  Frege notes that the conception when thinking about Bucephalus will be very different for a painter, a horseman and a zoologist.  What would Bucephalus himself have as a conception for his own name?