Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century PhilosophyRichard Gaskin Routledge, 2013 M04 15 - 272 pages This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of grammar, and on the relevance of grammar to metaphysics, logic and science. |
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... reference (Bedeutung) and from the realm of ideas (Vorstellungen) – must be ... level of sense: its constituents are then appropriately conceived as senses ... reference, with a Russellian approach to propositions (and facts), locating ...
... reference (Bedeutung) and from the realm of ideas (Vorstellungen) – must be ... level of sense: its constituents are then appropriately conceived as senses ... reference, with a Russellian approach to propositions (and facts), locating ...
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... level of sense. Now in the context of a distinction between sense and reference for names and predicates, this feature of the neo-Fregean economy cannot be justified. If objects and properties can be presented in different ways, then so ...
... level of sense. Now in the context of a distinction between sense and reference for names and predicates, this feature of the neo-Fregean economy cannot be justified. If objects and properties can be presented in different ways, then so ...
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... level of reference as well as at the level of sense.12 In the example I have just given we have to do with a quite general truth about proper names, the fact that, as Gareth Evans put it, 'the single main requirement for understanding a ...
... level of reference as well as at the level of sense.12 In the example I have just given we have to do with a quite general truth about proper names, the fact that, as Gareth Evans put it, 'the single main requirement for understanding a ...
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... reference (verbal noun), notwithstanding the clear distinction which obtains between sense and referent.14 Traditionally, so-called singular-proposition theorists have erred in locating propositions exclusively at the level of reference ...
... reference (verbal noun), notwithstanding the clear distinction which obtains between sense and referent.14 Traditionally, so-called singular-proposition theorists have erred in locating propositions exclusively at the level of reference ...
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... level of reference corresponding to sentences at the level of spoken and written language as being composed of other entities at the level of reference (in the simplest case, of an object and a monadic property). Frege's preferred ...
... level of reference corresponding to sentences at the level of spoken and written language as being composed of other entities at the level of reference (in the simplest case, of an object and a monadic property). Frege's preferred ...
Contents
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1 Frege and the grammar of truth | 28 |
Husserls tactics of meaning | 54 |
3 Logical form general sentences and Russells path to On Denoting | 74 |
4 Grammar ontology and truth in Russell and Bradley | 116 |
5 A few more remarks on logical form | 142 |
6 Logical syntax in the Tractatus | 163 |
7 Wittgenstein on grammar meaning and essence | 182 |
8 Nonsense and necessity in Wittgensteins mature philosophy | 199 |
9 Carnaps logical syntax | 218 |
10 Heidegger and the grammar of being | 238 |
Index | 253 |
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accept acquainted analysis analytic analytic philosophy argued argument arithmetical atomic sentences Begriffsschrift Bertrand Russell Bradley Cambridge Carnap categorial grammar claim complex concept-word conceptual content constituents corresponding definite descriptions denoting concepts denoting phrases distinction Dummett entities essence example fact factual content false Frege Fregean G. E. M. Anscombe G. H. von Wright Geach given Gödel’s grammatical form grammatical subject green Heidegger hence Husserl Hylton intersubstitutability language system level of reference linguistic logical form logical subject logical syntax meaning meaningful Meinong metaphysics Moorean Russell negation nonsense notion noun phrase objects ostensive definition Oxford Philosophy predicate proper names propositional functions quantifier phrases question reality reject relation rules Russell holds Russell’s Russellian propositions semantic sense simple singular term Socrates surface form symbol syntactic theory of denoting theory of descriptions Theory of Types things thought tion Tractatus transparency thesis true truth truth-value understanding University Press verb Wittgenstein words