Author: Charles Travis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199562377
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding that there are indefinitely many ways of filling out (giving content to) the notion of truth.. The truth of a thought or utterance is connected with the consequences of thinking or saying it. That is the point of Wittgenstein's introduction of the notion of a language game. The second key theme is this: a representation of things as being a certain way cannot take the right form for truth-bearing without a background of agreement in judgements: its form must belong to thinkers of a given kind. The third key theme is that the proprietary perceptions of a given sort of thinker as to what would be a case of judging when there is a particular way for things to be is not subject to criticism from outside it. Along the way Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the problem of singular thought, the notion of a proposition, rule-following, sense and nonsense, the possibility of private language, and the representational content of experience. The result is an original and stimulating demonstration of the continuing value of Wittgenstein's work for central debates in philosophy today.
Thought's Footing
Author: Charles Travis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199562377
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding that there are indefinitely many ways of filling out (giving content to) the notion of truth.. The truth of a thought or utterance is connected with the consequences of thinking or saying it. That is the point of Wittgenstein's introduction of the notion of a language game. The second key theme is this: a representation of things as being a certain way cannot take the right form for truth-bearing without a background of agreement in judgements: its form must belong to thinkers of a given kind. The third key theme is that the proprietary perceptions of a given sort of thinker as to what would be a case of judging when there is a particular way for things to be is not subject to criticism from outside it. Along the way Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the problem of singular thought, the notion of a proposition, rule-following, sense and nonsense, the possibility of private language, and the representational content of experience. The result is an original and stimulating demonstration of the continuing value of Wittgenstein's work for central debates in philosophy today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199562377
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into a unified view of the work as a whole. His methodological starting-point is to see Wittgenstein's work as a response to Frege's. The central question is: how does thought get its footing? How can the thought that things are a certain way be connected to things being that way? Wittgenstein departs from Frege in holding that there are indefinitely many ways of filling out (giving content to) the notion of truth.. The truth of a thought or utterance is connected with the consequences of thinking or saying it. That is the point of Wittgenstein's introduction of the notion of a language game. The second key theme is this: a representation of things as being a certain way cannot take the right form for truth-bearing without a background of agreement in judgements: its form must belong to thinkers of a given kind. The third key theme is that the proprietary perceptions of a given sort of thinker as to what would be a case of judging when there is a particular way for things to be is not subject to criticism from outside it. Along the way Travis gives his own distinctive take on such topics as the problem of singular thought, the notion of a proposition, rule-following, sense and nonsense, the possibility of private language, and the representational content of experience. The result is an original and stimulating demonstration of the continuing value of Wittgenstein's work for central debates in philosophy today.
Ideas and Methods Exchange
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Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Thought and Thrift
Author: Joshua Hill
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Language of Law School
Author: Elizabeth Mertz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884706
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884706
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
A Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: John Bartlett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169560
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
A complete concordance or verbal index to words, phrases and passages in the dramatic works of Shakespeare. There is also a supplementary concordance to the poems. This is an essential reference work for all students and readers of Shakespeare.
The World Process; Or, The Origin and Evolution of Life, Mind, Thought and Language Out of the One Element of Existence
Author: Mabel P. Malter
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Category : Thought and thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Category : Thought and thinking
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Great Thoughts from Master Minds
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The Pulpit
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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