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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... linguistics. The relation of grammar to philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its continuing importance for practitioners is directly traceable to ...
... linguistics. The relation of grammar to philosophy was investigated with an intensity which established the centrality of this topic in the philosophical canon, and its continuing importance for practitioners is directly traceable to ...
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... linguistic repertoire. That is because a subject may, without irrationality, deny that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is the same man as Paderewski (thought of in another way), and may come to realize, perhaps with a flash of ...
... linguistic repertoire. That is because a subject may, without irrationality, deny that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is the same man as Paderewski (thought of in another way), and may come to realize, perhaps with a flash of ...
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... linguistic unit, have reference is just truistic; but whether a definite description is satisfied by anything or not is not a semantical question, and so not the concern of the theorist of meaning. But if Frege's excessively broad ...
... linguistic unit, have reference is just truistic; but whether a definite description is satisfied by anything or not is not a semantical question, and so not the concern of the theorist of meaning. But if Frege's excessively broad ...
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... linguistic – they can be identified with suitable sets of items of spoken and written language – but objects (and other entities at the level of reference) remain stubbornly distinct both from entities at the level of sense and from ...
... linguistic – they can be identified with suitable sets of items of spoken and written language – but objects (and other entities at the level of reference) remain stubbornly distinct both from entities at the level of sense and from ...
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... composed of what are essentially linguistic items, namely true propositions, whether these are construed as senses on the first horn of the dilemma, or as referents on the second horn. But we are now in a position to see that.
... composed of what are essentially linguistic items, namely true propositions, whether these are construed as senses on the first horn of the dilemma, or as referents on the second horn. But we are now in a position to see that.
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