Wittgenstein On The Arbitrariness Of Grammar

Author : Michael N. Forster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826047
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar written by Michael N. Forster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : V. Raman
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788131300053
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Grammar in Wittgenstein written by V. Raman and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harris Roy Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468845
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saussure and his Interpreters written by Harris Roy Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major reassessment of the reception of Saussure's ideas throughout the twentieth century. That Saussure's work profoundly influenced developments in such diverse fields as linguistics, anthropology, psychology and literary studies is denied by no one. But what exactly Saussure's views were taken to be by his interpreters has not hitherto been subject to any comprehensive critical survey. How well were Saussure's ideas understood by those who took them up? Or how badly misunderstood? And why? The answers to these questions address central issues in the history of Western culture.Each chapter focuses on one particular interpreter of Saussure's work, but many others are mentioned in context for purposes of comparison, and attention is drawn to connections and disparities between their interpretations. Those whose interpretations are examined in detail include Bloomfield, Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, Chomsky, Barthes and Derrida.Features:* The author is acknowledged as an expert on Saussure's work* This is the first study of the reception of Saussure's ideas, and how well they were understood by those who took them up* The work of Saussure is a landmark in the history of linguistic thought

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520037250
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Grammar written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 Ludwig Wittgenstein revised a manuscript he had compiled from his 1930-1932 notebooks, but the work as a whole was not published until 1969, as Philosophische Grammatik. This first English translation clearly reveals the central place Philosophical Grammar occupies in Wittgenstein's thought and provides a link from his earlier philosophy to his later views.

Author : John T. E. Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book The Grammar of Justification written by John T. E. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : I. Dilman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059901X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution written by I. Dilman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.

Author : P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0631219862
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein, Part I: Essays written by P. M. S. Hacker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth and final volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers pp 428-693 of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis.

Author : Silver Bronzo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108968384
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Sense and Grammar written by Silver Bronzo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Shyam Wuppuluri
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030275698
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.) written by Shyam Wuppuluri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118854594
Total Pages : 407 pages
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Download or read book Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity written by Gordon P. Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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