Title: Philosophical systems, a categorical analysis.
Authors: Hall, Everett W.
Date: 1960
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Physical description: 170 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: What is a philosophical system? -- Use of these terms -- Virtues and defects of the formal and material modes -- Distinction between categorial and empirical assetions -- Categorial sentences as both analytic and synthetic -- Existential and reductive categorial sentences -- Categorial commitments and an extraconceptual world -- Marks of categorial commitment -- Appearance of native and foreign categories -- A special linguistic mark of ontological commitment -- Total resources of a language as marking categorial commitment -- Is a philosophical system without categorial commitment possible? -- Preamble -- The case of everyday experience -- The case of phenomenology -- The case of linguistic formalism -- The case of linguistic informalism -- Is a self-contained system possible? -- The case of pragmatism -- The case of language-innovation -- The case of existentialism -- Are there natural, indubitable categories available to all systems? -- The case of common-sense empirical sentences -- The case of phenomenalism-sense sentences -- The case of a-priorism-analytic and synthetic -- The given -- Grammar of the term -- In effects in philosophy -- Given in and given to a philosophical system -- Possible external grounds given to all philosophical systems.
Subject headings (LCSH): Philosophy, Comparative.