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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... facts. According to Russell's account of the composition of propositions in his Principles of Mathematics a proposition ... fact the Russellian approach – or something like it – is much older than 1899. For the view that there are ...
... facts. According to Russell's account of the composition of propositions in his Principles of Mathematics a proposition ... fact the Russellian approach – or something like it – is much older than 1899. For the view that there are ...
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... fact that when items of spoken and written language, centrally names and predicates, present entities in the world ... facts are located in the metaphysical economy, assuming that facts are identical with true propositions, 5 we will ...
... fact that when items of spoken and written language, centrally names and predicates, present entities in the world ... facts are located in the metaphysical economy, assuming that facts are identical with true propositions, 5 we will ...
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... facts – true Thoughts – make up the world, the only world there is. McDowell reaches this position by starting from the truism that the sort of thing one can think (e.g. that Spring has begun) is the sort of thing that can be the case ...
... facts – true Thoughts – make up the world, the only world there is. McDowell reaches this position by starting from the truism that the sort of thing one can think (e.g. that Spring has begun) is the sort of thing that can be the case ...
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... (fact) from the proposition (fact) that Hesperus is Hesperus (here identifying the propositions in question with Fregean Thoughts, and facts with true propositions, so understood), we will surely want to say that the proposition (fact) ...
... (fact) from the proposition (fact) that Hesperus is Hesperus (here identifying the propositions in question with Fregean Thoughts, and facts with true propositions, so understood), we will surely want to say that the proposition (fact) ...
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... fact it is not even the case that fair reportage always demands that one retain the same name as that used by the subject of one's report. In some contexts an assertion that a is F can be fairly reported as an assertion that b is F ...
... fact it is not even the case that fair reportage always demands that one retain the same name as that used by the subject of one's report. In some contexts an assertion that a is F can be fairly reported as an assertion that b is F ...
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