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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... of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Walter de Gruyter, 1995). Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy 1. The Story of Analytic.
... of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Walter de Gruyter, 1995). Routledge studies in twentieth-century philosophy 1. The Story of Analytic.
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... Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (1995) and Simplicius on Aristotle Categories 9–15 (2000). James Levine is Lecturer in Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He works largely in the area of early ...
... Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (1995) and Simplicius on Aristotle Categories 9–15 (2000). James Levine is Lecturer in Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He works largely in the area of early ...
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... argument for a particular position – and one which would not be shared by all, or perhaps any, of the contributors to the collection. But I hope that the reader may find it a useful and even challenging point of entry to the topic of ...
... argument for a particular position – and one which would not be shared by all, or perhaps any, of the contributors to the collection. But I hope that the reader may find it a useful and even challenging point of entry to the topic of ...
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... argument in this section has been, in effect, that to respond to these problems by locating propositions exclusively at the level of sense would be an overreaction. In some contexts, certainly, fineness of grain is wanted in the ...
... argument in this section has been, in effect, that to respond to these problems by locating propositions exclusively at the level of sense would be an overreaction. In some contexts, certainly, fineness of grain is wanted in the ...
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... 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 will not. But once ...
... 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 will not. But once ...
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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