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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... thought faute de mieux, so that one's thinking in some way falls short of the world. To give an analogy, if one ... (thought of as a musician) is talented is the same proposition (fact) as the proposition (fact) that Paderewski (thought ...
... thought faute de mieux, so that one's thinking in some way falls short of the world. To give an analogy, if one ... (thought of as a musician) is talented is the same proposition (fact) as the proposition (fact) that Paderewski (thought ...
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... (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 illumination, that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is Paderewski (thought of in another way). in But ...
... (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 illumination, that Paderewski (thought of in one way) is Paderewski (thought of in another way). in But ...
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... Thoughts as propositions, but of what Fregean Thoughts present in the realm of reference as propositions too: the propositions figuring at the level of sense will naturally be composed of senses, i.e. of modes of presentation of ...
... Thoughts as propositions, but of what Fregean Thoughts present in the realm of reference as propositions too: the propositions figuring at the level of sense will naturally be composed of senses, i.e. of modes of presentation of ...
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... Thoughts in the realm of reference, namely truth-values. Frege's argument for making truth-values the referents of declarative sentences is that under intersubstitution of co-referential parts of a sentence, while the thought introduced ...
... Thoughts in the realm of reference, namely truth-values. Frege's argument for making truth-values the referents of declarative sentences is that under intersubstitution of co-referential parts of a sentence, while the thought introduced ...
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... thought, since it contains infinitely many members). That in turn will be tantamount to knowing that a given sense Sn is in ∑ just in case it presents ∑. But here we have a vicious circularity, because there is no way into this ...
... thought, since it contains infinitely many members). That in turn will be tantamount to knowing that a given sense Sn is in ∑ just in case it presents ∑. But here we have a vicious circularity, because there is no way into this ...
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