Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198823643,0198823649,9780192556776, 0192556770

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• ISBN-10: 0192556770
• ISBN-13: 9780192556776
• Author: A. W. Moore

These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are – its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their nature, the sorites paradox, and the very distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein’s work, both early and late, figures prominently. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that some things are beyond representation. The essays in Part Two deal with representation more generally and with the character of what is represented, and owe much to Bernard Williams’s argument for the possibility of representation from no point of view. They touch more or less directly on the distinction between representation from a point of view and representation from no point of view-in some cases by exploring various consequences of Kant’s belief that representation of how things are physically is always, eo ipso, representation from a point of view. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that nothing is beyond representation. Each of the essays in Part Three, which draw inspiration from the early work of Wittgenstein, indicate how the resulting tension between Parts One and Two is to be resolved: namely, by construing the first part as a thesis about states of knowledge or understanding, and the second part as a thesis about facts or truths.

Table contents:

Part I: Language
1. How Significant is the Use/Mention Distinction?
2. The Underdetermination/Indeterminacy Distinction and the Analytic/ Synthetic Distinction
3. What Are These Familiar Words Doing Here?
4. The Bounds of Nonsense
5. Transcendental Idealism in Wittgenstein, and Theories of Meaning and Postscript
6. The Bounds of Sense
Part II: The World and Our Representations of it
7. A Note on Kant s First Antinomy
8. Bird on Kant s Mathematical Antinomies
9. Solipsism and Subjectivity
10. One or Two Dogmas of Objectivism
11. Apperception and the Unreality of Tense
12. The Metaphysics of Perspective: Tense and Colour
13. Realism and the Absolute Conception
14. One World
Part III: Ineffability
15. Being, Univocity, and Logical Syntax
16. Ineffability and Religion
17. On Saying and Showing
18. Ineffability and Nonsense

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