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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Page i
... metaphysics and philosophy of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Walter de Gruyter, 1995). Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy 1 The ...
... metaphysics and philosophy of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Walter de Gruyter, 1995). Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy 1 The ...
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... metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the history of philosophy, especially on the philosophies of Bradley, Russell, and Wittgenstein, including 'The Unity of the Proposition and Russell's Theories of Judgment' (1996) and 'Identifying ...
... metaphysics, philosophical logic, and the history of philosophy, especially on the philosophies of Bradley, Russell, and Wittgenstein, including 'The Unity of the Proposition and Russell's Theories of Judgment' (1996) and 'Identifying ...
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... Metaphysics, the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include In Contradiction (1987), Beyond the Limits of Thought (1995), and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001) ...
... Metaphysics, the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His publications include In Contradiction (1987), Beyond the Limits of Thought (1995), and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001) ...
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... metaphysics, logic, and science, including the new science of linguistics. The relation of grammar to philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its ...
... metaphysics, logic, and science, including the new science of linguistics. The relation of grammar to philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its ...
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... metaphysical economy, to register the fact that when items of spoken and written language, centrally names and predicates, present entities in the world, centrally objects and properties (i.e. saturated universals such as wisdom) or ...
... metaphysical economy, to register the fact that when items of spoken and written language, centrally names and predicates, present entities in the world, centrally objects and properties (i.e. saturated universals such as wisdom) or ...
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