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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... Truth' (1999). Gary Ebbs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, including 'Can We Take Our Words at Face Value ...
... Truth' (1999). Gary Ebbs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published articles on metaphysics and the philosophy of language, including 'Can We Take Our Words at Face Value ...
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... truth-values. Frege's argument for making truth-values the referents of declarative sentences is that under intersubstitution of co-referential parts of a sentence, while the thought introduced by the sentence may change, its truth-value ...
... truth-values. Frege's argument for making truth-values the referents of declarative sentences is that under intersubstitution of co-referential parts of a sentence, while the thought introduced by the sentence may change, its truth-value ...
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... truth-values as the referents of sentences.20 For it is in general neither necessary nor sufficient for the understanding of a sentence that one know its truth-value. That it is not necessary is obvious. The reason why it is not ...
... truth-values as the referents of sentences.20 For it is in general neither necessary nor sufficient for the understanding of a sentence that one know its truth-value. That it is not necessary is obvious. The reason why it is not ...
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... truth-values, in favour of entities composed of the other referential entities in the picture, namely objects and ... value may express distinct Russellian propositions. But there is a way of mitigating the appearance of clash between ...
... truth-values, in favour of entities composed of the other referential entities in the picture, namely objects and ... value may express distinct Russellian propositions. But there is a way of mitigating the appearance of clash between ...
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... truth-value. Why 1 1 1 11 11 11 11 should it be thought that the sheer availability of false 16 Richard Gaskin.
... truth-value. Why 1 1 1 11 11 11 11 should it be thought that the sheer availability of false 16 Richard Gaskin.
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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