Wittgenstein On Sense And Grammar

Author : Silver Bronzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
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Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108968386

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Wittgenstein on Sense and Grammar by Silver Bronzo Pdf

The distinction between sense and nonsense is central to Wittgenstein's philosophy. It is at the basis of his conception of philosophy as a struggle against illusions of sense generated by misunderstandings of the logic of our language. Moreover, it informs the notions of “grammar” (in the later work) and “logical syntax” (in the early work), whose investigation serves to clear up those misunderstandings. This Element contrasts two exegetical approaches: one grounding charges of nonsensicality in a theory of sense specifying criteria that are external to the linguistic performance under indictment; and one rejecting any such theory. The former pursues the idea of a nonsensicality test; the latter holds that illusions of sense can only be overcome from within, through the very capacity of which they constitute defective exercises. The Element connects the two approaches to opposite understandings of Wittgenstein's conception of language, and defends a version of the second approach.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 502 pages
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Release : 1991-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780631118916

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Philosophical Grammar by Ludwig Wittgenstein Pdf

Wittgenstein wrote the Philosophical Grammar during the years 1931 to 1934 - the period just before he began to dictate the Blue Book. Although it is close to the Investigations in some points, and to the Phiosophische Bemerkungen at others, the Philosophical Grammar is an independent work which covers new ground. It is Wittgenstein's fullest treatment of logic and mathematics in their connection with his later understanding of 'proposition', 'sign', and 'system'. He also discusses inference and generality - critisizing views of Frege and Russell as well as earlier views of his own - and the treatment of mathematical proof in this book, especially of inductive or recursive proofs, is deeper and more extensive than previously.

Author : Michael N. Forster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
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Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400826049

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Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar by Michael N. Forster Pdf

What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions. Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a generalized (and otherwise modified) version of Kant's transcendental idealist solution to a puzzle about necessity. It also seeks to reconcile Wittgenstein's seemingly inconsistent answers to the question of whether or not grammar is arbitrary by showing that he believed grammar to be arbitrary in one sense and non-arbitrary in another. Part II focuses on an especially central and contested feature of Wittgenstein's account: a thesis of the diversity of grammars. The author discusses this thesis in connection with the nature of formal logic, the limits of language, and the conditions of semantic understanding or access. Strongly argued and cleary written, this book will appeal not only to philosophers but also to students of the human sciences, for whom Wittgenstein's work holds great relevance.

Author : Shyam Wuppuluri,Newton da Costa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 565 pages
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Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030275693

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WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.) by Shyam Wuppuluri,Newton da Costa Pdf

“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” What would it have looked like if we looked at all sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy? Wittgenstein is undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His complex body of work has been analysed by numerous scholars, from mathematicians and physicists, to philosophers, linguists, and beyond. This volume brings together some of his central perspectives as applied to the modern sciences and studies the influence they may have on the thought processes underlying science and on the world view it engenders. The contributions stem from leading scholars in philosophy, mathematics, physics, economics, psychology and human sciences; all of them have written in an accessible style that demands little specialist knowledge, whilst clearly portraying and discussing the deep issues at hand.

Author : John T. E. Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106019543369

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The Grammar of Justification by John T. E. Richardson Pdf

Author : M. Engelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137316592

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Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development by M. Engelmann Pdf

The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet challenges of his 'middle period.' It also shows why and how he invents a new method and develops an anthropological perspective, which gradually frame his philosophy and give birth to the Philosophical Investigations .

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199556748

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Wittgenstein's Private Language by Stephen Mulhall Pdf

The author offers a new way of interpreting one of the most famous and contested texts in modern philosophy. He sheds new light on a central controversy concerning Wittgenstein's early work by showing its relevance to a proper understanding of the later work.

Author : V. Raman
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 8131300056

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Language and Grammar in Wittgenstein by V. Raman Pdf

Author : Mark Addis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429648403

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Wittgenstein by Mark Addis Pdf

Originally published in 1999, Wittgenstein: Making Sense of Other Minds explores human relations and the issues raised by one immensely influential response to the problems generated by the claims about the existence and properties of other minds. How do we justify the interpretations which we place on other people's behaviour? Is my mind the only real mind? Is there a difference between the way in which I understand m mind and that of another person? This book explores Wittgenstein's theories, critiquing and analysing them, including chapters on the concept of criteria, grammar in the middle and late period, and the blue book and later work.

Author : Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1444315706

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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity by Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker Pdf

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar andNecessity (the second volume of the landmark analyticalcommentary on Wittgenstein’s PhilosophicalInvestigations) now includes extensively revised andsupplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex andcontroversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of onenew essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions ofrule-following Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’sconception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result oftaking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of theNachlass Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-followingthat have raged over the past 20 years

Author : Stuart Shanker,David Kilfoyle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415149142

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Early Wittgenstein by Stuart Shanker,David Kilfoyle Pdf

Wittgenstein scholarship has continued to grow at a pace few could have anticipated - a testament both to the fertility of his thought and to the thriving state of contemporary philosophy. In response to this ever-growing interest in the field, we are delighted to announce the publication of a second series of critical assessments on Wittgenstein, emphasising both the breadth and depth of contemporary Wittgenstein research.As well as papers on the nature and method of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this second collection also relates to a broader range of topics, including psychology, politics, art, music and culture.

Author : Michael Hymers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315402130

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Wittgenstein on Sensation and Perception by Michael Hymers Pdf

This book offers two novel claims about Wittgenstein’s views and methods on perception as explored in the Philosophical Investigations. The first is an interpretive claim about Wittgenstein: that his views on sensation and perception, including his critique of private language, have their roots in his reflections on sense-datum theories and on what Hymers calls the misleading metaphor of phenomenal space. The second is a major philosophical claim: that Wittgenstein’s critique of the misleading metaphor of phenomenal space is of ongoing relevance to current debates concerning first-person authority and the problem of perception because we are still tempted to draw inferences about the phenomenal that only apply to the physical. Many contemporary discussions of these topics are thus premised on the very confusions Wittgenstein sought to dispel. This book will appeal to Wittgenstein scholars who are interested in the Philosophical Investigations and to philosophers of perception who may think that Wittgenstein’s views are mistaken, irrelevant, or already adequately appreciated.

Author : P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118951774

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Wittgenstein by P. M. S. Hacker Pdf

Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part 2 – Exegesis §§243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein’s arguments in §§243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in Wittgenstein’s text is systematically analysed. Problematic expressions, phrases and sentences are clarified, source remarks in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass that shed light on the text are elaborated. The bearing of the remarks on deep philosophical problems is made clear. This volume of exegesis of §§243-427 has been extensively revised, incorporating numerous references to original and secondary texts of Wittgenstein that were not known to exist in 1990. New comprehensive tables of correlation between the remarks of the Investigations and the source of the remarks in the Nachlass have been added. A variety of controversies of the last quarter of a century concerning the private language arguments, the nature of thought and imagination, consciousness and the self are addressed and settled explicitly or implicitly in the new exegesis. All references to Wittgenstein’s text have been adjusted to the fourth edition, although page references to the first and second editions have been retained in parenthesis. These revisions bring the book up to the high standard of the extensively revised editions of Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning (2005) and Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (2009). They ensure that this survey of Investigations §§243-427 will remain the essential reference work on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece for the foreseeable future.

Author : Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118854594

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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity by Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker Pdf

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

Author : Gordon Baker,P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631161880

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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity by Gordon Baker,P. M. S. Hacker Pdf

This is the second volume of analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's masterpiece, the Philosophical Investigations. Like the first, it consists of philosophical essays and critical exegesis. The six essays deal comprehensively with various themes in Wittgenstein''s philosophy: the relationship between his mathematics and his philosophy of mind; his conception of grammar and rules of grammar; the relation between a rule and what accords with a rule; the characterization of rule-following as mastery of a technique manifest in practice; his notion of a form of life, and of agreement in definitions and judgements; a comprehensive investigation into his account of logical and mathematical necessity and other topics.