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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... Sense' (1998). Richard Mendelsohn is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He has published articles on logic and the history of philosophy, in particular on the philosophy of Frege, and is the joint author, with M ...
... Sense' (1998). Richard Mendelsohn is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He has published articles on logic and the history of philosophy, in particular on the philosophy of Frege, and is the joint author, with M ...
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... sense: its constituents are then appropriately conceived as senses, rather than the objects presented by those senses. If we ask where facts are located in the metaphysical economy, assuming that facts are identical with true ...
... sense: its constituents are then appropriately conceived as senses, rather than the objects presented by those senses. If we ask where facts are located in the metaphysical economy, assuming that facts are identical with true ...
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... sense. The realm of sense (Sinn) contains thoughts in the sense of what can be thought (thinkables) as opposed to acts or episodes of thinking. The identity displays facts, things that are the case, as thoughts in that sense – the ...
... sense. The realm of sense (Sinn) contains thoughts in the sense of what can be thought (thinkables) as opposed to acts or episodes of thinking. The identity displays facts, things that are the case, as thoughts in that sense – the ...
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... sense and reference is on the table, be located exclusively on the sense side of the sense–reference divide, on pain of introducing the sense–reference distinction into contexts where it is irrelevant. For if we insist on housing ...
... sense and reference is on the table, be located exclusively on the sense side of the sense–reference divide, on pain of introducing the sense–reference distinction into contexts where it is irrelevant. For if we insist on housing ...
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... senses, where distinctness of sense is governed by a principle which Frege expresses several times13 and which Evans calls the Intuitive Criterion of Difference (1982: 18f.): according to this criterion, sentences differin sense just in ...
... senses, where distinctness of sense is governed by a principle which Frege expresses several times13 and which Evans calls the Intuitive Criterion of Difference (1982: 18f.): according to this criterion, sentences differin sense just in ...
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