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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... semantically significant parts of those sentences, centrally objects and properties. If Russellian propositions ... semantic and epistemological significance. Frege located propositions, which he called Thoughts (Gedanken), at the ...
... semantically significant parts of those sentences, centrally objects and properties. If Russellian propositions ... semantic and epistemological significance. Frege located propositions, which he called Thoughts (Gedanken), at the ...
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... as Paderewski (thought of in another way), and may come to realize, perhaps with a flash of illumination, that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is Paderewski (thought of in another way). in But, for the purposes of semantics, we do not.
... as Paderewski (thought of in another way), and may come to realize, perhaps with a flash of illumination, that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is Paderewski (thought of in another way). in But, for the purposes of semantics, we do not.
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... semantically without significance. That does not mean that there is no place for a purely semantic conception of sense, but any such conception will, at least in the case of proper names, be a relatively thin notion, no more than what ...
... semantically without significance. That does not mean that there is no place for a purely semantic conception of sense, but any such conception will, at least in the case of proper names, be a relatively thin notion, no more than what ...
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... semantic notion, according to which the referent of an expression is just what an adequate theory of meaning for the ... semantically significant parts of the sentence, can meet this requirement. Frege's full picture of the composition ...
... semantic notion, according to which the referent of an expression is just what an adequate theory of meaning for the ... semantically significant parts of the sentence, can meet this requirement. Frege's full picture of the composition ...
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... semantics of definite descriptions must distinguish between reference and satisfaction: that a definite description must, like any other semantically significant linguistic unit, have reference is just truistic; but whether a definite ...
... semantics of definite descriptions must distinguish between reference and satisfaction: that a definite description must, like any other semantically significant linguistic unit, have reference is just truistic; but whether a definite ...
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