The unity of the proposition
By: Richard Gaskin.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780199239450
Subjects: Proposition (Logic); Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences; Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Truth, falsity, and unity; title: Sentences, lists, and collections; title: Declarative and other kinds of sentence; title: Declarative sentences and propositions; title: Sentences, propositions, and truth-values; title: Sentences, propositions, and unity; title: Unity and complexity; title: Reference and supposition; title: Reference and signification; title: Linguistic idealism and empirical realism; title: Russell on truth, falsity, and unity (I) : 1903; title: Russell on truth, falsity, and unity (II) : 1910-13; title: Russell on truth, falsity, and unity (III) : 1918; title: Sense, reference, and propositions; title: Russellian propositions, Fregean thoughts, and facts; title: The location of propositions; title: Proper names, concept-expressions, and definite descriptions; title: Concept-expressions and Carnapian intensions; title: Carnapian intensions and understanding; title: Carnapian intensions and Russellian propositions; title: Russellian propositions and functionality; title: A revised semantic map; title: Sentences as referring expressions; title: False propositions at the level of reference; title: The world's own language; title: Signification and supposition revisited; title: Frege and Russell on unity; title: Saturatedness and unsaturatedness; title: The copula as secundum adiacens and as tertium adiacens; title: Frege and the Copula; title: The paradox of the concept horse; title: Russell on unity and the paradox; title: An unsuccessful attempt to avoid the paradox; title: The paradox and the level of language; title: Reforming Frege's treatment of concept-expressions; title: Concepts and functions; title: The reformed Frege : refinements and objections; title: Frege, Russell, and the anti-fregean strategy; title: The anti-fregean strategy : the case of names; title: Disquotation and propositional form; title: The context principle; title: Prabhakara semantics and the related designation theory; title: For that is not a word which is not the name of a thing; title: The impartial strategy; title: Secundum and tertium adiacens, matter and form; title: The hierarchy of levels and the syntactic priority thesis; title: Fregean and anti-fregean strategies; title: The anti-fregean strategy and relations (I); title: Interlude: The subject; title: predicate distinction; title: The anti-fregean strategy and relations (II); title: The reality of relations; title: Polyadicity, monadicity, and identity; title: The anti-fregean strategy and Montague grammar; title: Fregean and anti-fregean strategies : further comparison; title: Ramsey on the subject : predicate distinction; title: Dummett's attack on the anti-fregean strategy; title: Linguistic idealism revisited; title: Alternative hierarchies and the context principle; title: The linguistic hierarchy and categorial nonsense; title: Logical syntax and the context principle; title: Proper names, singular terms, and the identity test; title: Proper names, Leibniz's law, and the identity of indiscernibles; title: The negation asymmetry test; title: Dummett's tests for singular termhood; title: Discarding the syntactic priority thesis; title: Logical predication, logical form, and Bradley's regress; title: Names, verbs, and the replacement test; title: Analysis and paradox; title: Simple, complex, and logical predicates; title: The grammatical copula and the logical copula; title: Predication in Frege; title: Two exegetical problems in Frege; title: Inference and the logical predicate; title: Unity and the logical predicate; title: Bradley's regress and the tradition; title: Russell and the general form of the proposition; title: Wittgenstein's criticism of Russell; title: Logical form in theTractatus; title: Bradley's regress and the unity of the proposition; title: The logical copula and theories of meaning; title: Reference and the logical copula; title: Bradley's regress and the analysis of meaning; title: Vicious practical regresses; title: Bradley's regress and the solution to the unity problem; title: Propositions, sets, sums, and the objects themselves; title: Bradley's regress and the infinite; title: Vallicella's onto-theology; title: A comparison with other innocent regresses; title: Truth, falsity, and unity revisited; title: Bradley's regress, realism, and states of affairs; title: Unity and use; title: The unity of sentences and the unity of complex names (I); title: The unity of sentences and the unity of complex names (II); title: Congruence, functionality, and propositional unity; title: Davidson on predication; title: Epilogue: The limits of language.