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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... notion of a term and Moore's corresponding notion of a concept.1 In fact the Russellian approach – or something like it – is much older than 1899. For the view that there are propositions in rebus, or propositions which, though located ...
... notion of a term and Moore's corresponding notion of a concept.1 In fact the Russellian approach – or something like it – is much older than 1899. For the view that there are propositions in rebus, or propositions which, though located ...
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... notion of proposition, i.e. that we need to discern propositions obtaining at the level of reference as well as at the level of 12 sense. In the example I have just given we have to do with a quite general truth about proper names, the ...
... notion of proposition, i.e. that we need to discern propositions obtaining at the level of reference as well as at the level of 12 sense. In the example I have just given we have to do with a quite general truth about proper names, the ...
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... notion, no more than what one might call the internal accusative of the reference relation: for a name to have sense, in this sense of 'sense', is just for it – that very name – to have a referent. For in having a referent the name ...
... notion, no more than what one might call the internal accusative of the reference relation: for a name to have sense, in this sense of 'sense', is just for it – that very name – to have a referent. For in having a referent the name ...
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... notion, according to which the referent of an expression is just what an adequate theory of meaning for the language in question will specify as what an understander needs to think of, and what it suffices for him to think of, in order ...
... notion, according to which the referent of an expression is just what an adequate theory of meaning for the language in question will specify as what an understander needs to think of, and what it suffices for him to think of, in order ...
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... notion of meaning has been subdivided into these further species (as it was not by Russell himself). It is of course a matter of controversy exactly how the semantics of definite descriptions should be characterized, but it should be ...
... notion of meaning has been subdivided into these further species (as it was not by Russell himself). It is of course a matter of controversy exactly how the semantics of definite descriptions should be characterized, but it should be ...
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