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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... green' is just all the green objects. That means (given the conception of reference we are working with: pp. 6–9), that in order to understand this concept-word an understander needs to be acquainted with those objects, and needs to ...
... green' is just all the green objects. That means (given the conception of reference we are working with: pp. 6–9), that in order to understand this concept-word an understander needs to be acquainted with those objects, and needs to ...
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... green objects amounts, on this account, to being able, in favourable conditions, to settle whether a given object is green or not. (There is no prospect here of a more informative specification of the membership condition, which is that ...
... green objects amounts, on this account, to being able, in favourable conditions, to settle whether a given object is green or not. (There is no prospect here of a more informative specification of the membership condition, which is that ...
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... green things – even when this is taken to contain all objects which are at any time green – without knowing that they are green, that is, without realizing that their satisfying that condition is exactly what makes them members of this ...
... green things – even when this is taken to contain all objects which are at any time green – without knowing that they are green, that is, without realizing that their satisfying that condition is exactly what makes them members of this ...
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... green objects in those worlds as green (as satisfying the schema 'a is green'). But one might now wonder whether a recurrence of the vicious circularity problem which plagued Ockham's semantics would undermine the possibility of ...
... green objects in those worlds as green (as satisfying the schema 'a is green'). But one might now wonder whether a recurrence of the vicious circularity problem which plagued Ockham's semantics would undermine the possibility of ...
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... green', any such circularity certainly is vicious. 38. De Puritate Artis Logicae (1955): 9, 7–16. 39. As Ockham does ... green' = knowing the membership condition of the set of green things = being able to settle, in favourable ...
... green', any such circularity certainly is vicious. 38. De Puritate Artis Logicae (1955): 9, 7–16. 39. As Ockham does ... green' = knowing the membership condition of the set of green things = being able to settle, in favourable ...
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