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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... Thought (1995), and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001). In addition, he has published numerous papers on logic, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Ian Proops is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of ...
... Thought (1995), and An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001). In addition, he has published numerous papers on logic, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy. Ian Proops is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of ...
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... thought that the phenomenon of grammar must be of philosophical significance. Language is about the world, and language is governed by grammar. What does that tell us about the world – that it in some sense has a grammar too? And, if so ...
... thought that the phenomenon of grammar must be of philosophical significance. Language is about the world, and language is governed by grammar. What does that tell us about the world – that it in some sense has a grammar too? And, if so ...
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... thought of as belonging exclusively to the history of the subject; but it is, happily, hard to see any such relegation occurring in the near future. My introduction, aside from being an attempt in its own right to make a contribution to ...
... thought of as belonging exclusively to the history of the subject; but it is, happily, hard to see any such relegation occurring in the near future. My introduction, aside from being an attempt in its own right to make a contribution to ...
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... thought, or may occur in any true or false proposition, or can be counted as one, I call a term. . . . A man, a moment, a number, a class, a relation, a chimaera, or anything else that can be mentioned, is sure to be a term. (1903: 43) ...
... thought, or may occur in any true or false proposition, or can be counted as one, I call a term. . . . A man, a moment, a number, a class, a relation, a chimaera, or anything else that can be mentioned, is sure to be a term. (1903: 43) ...
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... Thoughts (Gedanken), at the level of 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 ...
... Thoughts (Gedanken), at the level of 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 ...
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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