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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... Acquaintance, Denoting Concepts, and 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 ...
... Acquaintance, Denoting Concepts, and 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 ...
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... acquainted with, in order to count as understanding the relevant expression), 19 then it will not be an option to ... acquaintance at the level of reference corresponding to sentences at the level of spoken and written language as being ...
... acquainted with, in order to count as understanding the relevant expression), 19 then it will not be an option to ... acquaintance at the level of reference corresponding to sentences at the level of spoken and written language as being ...
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... acquainted with those objects, and needs to think of them when entertaining that concept-word. But that in turn means that the understander's understanding of that concept-word will consist in knowledge of the truth-values of a ...
... acquainted with those objects, and needs to think of them when entertaining that concept-word. But that in turn means that the understander's understanding of that concept-word will consist in knowledge of the truth-values of a ...
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... acquaintance with a set as requiring acquaintance with its members (together with the knowledge that they are its members) ... acquainted with the set of green objects amounts, on this account, to being able, in favourable conditions, to ...
... acquaintance with a set as requiring acquaintance with its members (together with the knowledge that they are its members) ... acquainted with the set of green objects amounts, on this account, to being able, in favourable conditions, to ...
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... acquainted with the set. But then it might be held that it is at least in principle possible for someone to be acquainted with the set of green things – even when this is taken to contain all objects which are at any time green ...
... acquainted with the set. But then it might be held that it is at least in principle possible for someone to be acquainted with the set of green things – even when this is taken to contain all objects which are at any time green ...
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