What are Frege's views on the mental acts of merely entertaining a thought and judging and on the illocutionary act of asserting, and to what extent, if any, do they withstand critical scrutiny? In this paper I want to contribute to the ongoing discussion of these questions by commenting on a highly pertinent passage in Frege's 1918 essay "Der Gedanke'.¹ Here is the first half of that passage. (The translation is my own, and you will soon see why it had to be.)