Metaphysics And Grammar

Author : William Charlton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472579305
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics and Grammar written by William Charlton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the relation of metaphysics to grammar, placing the central topics of philosophy in an entirely new light.

Author : Sergio La Porta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158103
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign written by Sergio La Porta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations.

Author : Michel Haar
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427873
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and Metaphysics written by Michel Haar and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Haar assesses the overcoming of metaphysics urged by Nietzsche. Pointing out that Nietzsche's overcoming must be conceived as a task both critical and reconstructive, Haar shows how Nietzsche criticizes philosophical concepts as being traceable to a process of simplification and identification, thus subverting traditional categories and identities. Haar presents Nietzsche as an aesthetic stoic. Although opposed to any doctrinal tenet, Nietzsche rekindles a Stoic return to nature in the register of a creative and aesthetic decision. Necessity is no longer a single rational force permeating all beings. Instead he conceives of the will to power as a schematization of the natural chaos and refers Dionysos to an inspiring voice: "the genius of the heart." Rejecting the Deleuzian essay of interpretation that unleashes the simulacra of an untamed imagination, Haar points out that Nietzsche's rejection of Kant is much less extreme than imagined in Deleuze's eccentric readings. Haar also shows that the rupture with Schopenhauer came very early in Nietzsche's itinerary although he accepted the idea of a social conditioning of science. Haar shows that two Apollonian sublimities are distinguished by Nietzsche: one generating idyll, epos, and mythic language; the other a compensatory illusion on the dramatic stage destined to dismiss the horror of an endlessly swelling ground. It is this monstrosity that a creative forgetfulness is destined to replace by seeking a place for the work of art amidst tragic joy.

Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113459139X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy written by Richard Gaskin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harvey B. Sarles
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789031601349
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Metaphysics written by Harvey B. Sarles and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421655
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The essays address cross-cultural issues such as: Why does grammar serve as a template in these cultures? How are such templates culturally contoured? To what end are they applied — i.e., what can one do with grammar — , and how does it work upon the world? The book is divided into three sections that deal with the metaphysics of linguistic creation; practices of encoding and decoding as a means of deciphering reality; and language in the widest sense as a medium for self- and cultural transformation. Contributors include: Jan Assman, Sara Sviri, Michael Stone, M. Finkelberg, Yigal Bronner, Martin Kern, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Dan Martin, Jonathan Garb, Tom Hunter, David Shulman, and Sergio La Porta.

Author : Peter Ludlow
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263474
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics, Tense, and Time written by Peter Ludlow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called "presentism"), there are no past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now. Ludlow argues that each metaphysical picture is tied to a particular semantical theory of tense and that the dispute can be adjudicated on semantical grounds. A presentism-compatible semantics, he claims, is superior to a B-theory semantics in a number of respects, including its abilities to handle the indexical nature of temporal discourse and to account for facts about language acquisition. Along the way, Ludlow develops a conception of "E-type" temporal anaphora that can account for both temporal anaphora and complex tenses without reference to past and future events. His view has philosophical consequences for theories of logic, self-knowledge, and memory. As for linguistic consequences, Ludlow suggests that the very idea of grammatical tense may have to be dispensed with and replaced with some combination of aspect, modality, and evidentiality.

Author : S. La Porta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign written by S. La Porta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benson Mates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Leibniz written by Benson Mates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a systematic account of the wide-ranging philosophical ideas of Leibniz. The author, a highly respected analytical philosopher, has brought his own abilities to bear on the unwieldy and inaccessible corpus of Leibniz's work.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973405368
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Metaphysics in English, Latin and Ancient Greek written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Each paragraph has an English, Latin and (original) Ancient Greek rendition. Students of Classics or anyone interested in ancient philosophy and languages should find in this trilingual edition an a helpful device to approach Aristotle original Greek. The English translation is David Ross' (1908), and the Latin comes from William of Moerbeke's medieval translation. At the end of the volume readers can find an outline of Ancient Greek grammar in tables and graphic explanations. parenthetically, William of Moerbeke's translation was commissioned by Thomas Aquinas, who wanted a Latin rendition as close as possible to the original Greek. As a result, the Latin version does violence at times to the normal Latin syntax, but is very useful for language learning when read in parallel with Aristotle's original text.