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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... Carnap, and Heidegger. The substantial introduction presents the reader with a systematic perspective on some of the issues explored by these philosophers. The questions raised by these philosophers include the following: If language is ...
... Carnap, and Heidegger. The substantial introduction presents the reader with a systematic perspective on some of the issues explored by these philosophers. The questions raised by these philosophers include the following: If language is ...
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... and necessity in Wittgenstein's mature philosophy RICHARD GASKIN 9. Carnap's logical syntax GARY EBBS 10. Heidegger and the grammar of being GRAHAM PRIEST Index Contributors Stewart Candlish is Professor of Philosophy at the University.
... and necessity in Wittgenstein's mature philosophy RICHARD GASKIN 9. Carnap's logical syntax GARY EBBS 10. Heidegger and the grammar of being GRAHAM PRIEST Index Contributors Stewart Candlish is Professor of Philosophy at the University.
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... Carnap, and Heidegger. I have chosen instead to present the reader, in my editorial introduction, with a partly historical but largely systematic route through some of the issues and philosophers forming the subject matter of this ...
... Carnap, and Heidegger. I have chosen instead to present the reader, in my editorial introduction, with a partly historical but largely systematic route through some of the issues and philosophers forming the subject matter of this ...
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... Carnap in the Aufbau, in so far as that purports to adapt and extend Russellian type theory: see §30, §§179–80), is that the theory cannot itself be characterized without breaching the very type restrictions it is intended to establish ...
... Carnap in the Aufbau, in so far as that purports to adapt and extend Russellian type theory: see §30, §§179–80), is that the theory cannot itself be characterized without breaching the very type restrictions it is intended to establish ...
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... Carnap 1998: §159. 33. With the proviso noted above (n. 20). 34. According to a well-known argument, deriving from Church and Gödel, and reiterated by Quine and Davidson, the proponent of the thesis that sentences have referents is ...
... Carnap 1998: §159. 33. With the proviso noted above (n. 20). 34. According to a well-known argument, deriving from Church and Gödel, and reiterated by Quine and Davidson, the proponent of the thesis that sentences have referents is ...
Contents
Frege and the grammar of truth | |
Husserls tactics of meaning | |
Logical form general sentences and Russells path to On Denoting | |
Grammar ontology and truth in Russell and Bradley | |
A few more remarks on logical form | |
Logical syntax in the Tractatus | |
Wittgenstein on grammar meaning and essence | |
Nonsense and necessity in Wittgensteins mature philosophy | |
Carnaps logical syntax | |
Heidegger and the grammar of being | |
Index | |
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accept acquainted analysis analytic analytic philosophy argued argument arithmetical atomic sentences Begriffsschrift Bertrand Russell Bradley Cambridge Candlish Carnap Carnapian intension categorial grammar claim complex concept-word conceptual content constituents corresponding declarative sentence definite descriptions denoting concepts denoting phrases distinction Dummett entities essence example fact factual content false formal Frege Fregean 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 definitions Oxford Philosophy predicate proper names propositional functions quantifier phrases question reality reject relation rules Russell holds Russell’s Russellian propositions semantic sense sense and reference singular term Socrates speak surface form symbol syntactic theory of denoting theory of descriptions Theory of Types things thought Tractatus transparency thesis true truth truth-value understanding University Press verb Wittgenstein words