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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... 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 the cardinal role ...
... 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 the cardinal role ...
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... relation, a chimaera, or anything else that can be mentioned, is sure to be a term. (1903: 43) Russell's 1903 treatment of propositions as containing worldly things was not an entirely new departure in the history of philosophy. Russell ...
... relation, a chimaera, or anything else that can be mentioned, is sure to be a term. (1903: 43) Russell's 1903 treatment of propositions as containing worldly things was not an entirely new departure in the history of philosophy. Russell ...
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... 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 necessarily has reference – where this latter word has its full force as a verbal noun ...
... 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 necessarily has reference – where this latter word has its full force as a verbal noun ...
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... relation of determination, so that there can be no question of a general identification between Russellian propositions and their corresponding Carnapian intensions. (In the general case Russellian propositions will be identified with ...
... relation of determination, so that there can be no question of a general identification between Russellian propositions and their corresponding Carnapian intensions. (In the general case Russellian propositions will be identified with ...
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... relation being 'x has the same referent as y', where the variables range over (actual and possible) proper names. And objects also determine equivalence classes of senses of names, the relevant equivalence relation being 's presents the ...
... relation being 'x has the same referent as y', where the variables range over (actual and possible) proper names. And objects also determine equivalence classes of senses of names, the relevant equivalence relation being 's presents the ...
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