Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy

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Richard 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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Contents

List of Contributors
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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Richard Gaskin is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Edinburgh, Mainz and Bonn. He has extensive publications in ancient, medieval and modern metaphysics and philosophy of language, including The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Walter de Gruyter, 1995).

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