The unity of the proposition / Richard Gaskin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaskin, Richard, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proposition (Logic).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 455 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express--what marks them off from mere lists of words and mere aggregates of word-meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, his account of the unity of the proposition has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality. He argues that the unity of the proposition isconstituted by a certain infinitistic structure known in the tradition as 'Bradley's regress'. Usually, Bradley's regres

Contents:

Contents; 1 Truth, Falsity, and Unity; 2 Sense, Reference, and Propositions; 3 Frege and Russell on Unity; 4 The Hierarchy of Levels and the Syntactic Priority Thesis; 5 Logical Predication, Logical Form, and Bradley's Regress; 6 Bradley's Regress and the Unity of the Proposition; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-450) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-281-97858-2

9786611978587

0-19-155362-X

OCLC:

301983633