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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Richard Gaskin. Grammar in Early Twentieth - Century Philosophy Edited by and Richard Gaskin ROUTLEDGE Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy What is the philosophical significance. Front Cover.
Richard Gaskin. Grammar in Early Twentieth - Century Philosophy Edited by and Richard Gaskin ROUTLEDGE Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy What is the philosophical significance. Front Cover.
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Richard Gaskin. Grammar. in. Early. Twentieth-Century. Philosophy. What is the philosophical significance of grammar? No period in the history of philosophy provides a richer source of materials for the consideration of this question than ...
Richard Gaskin. Grammar. in. Early. Twentieth-Century. Philosophy. What is the philosophical significance of grammar? No period in the history of philosophy provides a richer source of materials for the consideration of this question than ...
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... 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 the Identity ...
... 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 the Identity ...
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... philosophy, including 'The Early Wittgenstein on Logical Assertion' (1998). Bede Rundle is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and has published ... philosophy. Preface What is the philosophical significance of grammar? No period.
... philosophy, including 'The Early Wittgenstein on Logical Assertion' (1998). Bede Rundle is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and has published ... philosophy. Preface What is the philosophical significance of grammar? No period.
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... philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its continuing importance for practitioners is directly traceable to the cardinal role it played in the ...
... philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its continuing importance for practitioners is directly traceable to the cardinal role it played in the ...
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