基本説明
Among the issues discussed in this book are the following: paradoxes; the concept of number; realism (as it should be understood within the concept); falsifiability, a peculiar aspect of the mind-body problem; universals; and other issues.
Full Description
The World and Language propounds the assumption that natural language is not linear. Linear languages are those in which an iteration of a sign is allowed. In contrast, in natural language—as it is assumed—an iteration of a term must have a different meaning than the initial term. Cogency of the notion of non-linearity is deemed to grow as its explanatory power is being revealed, though the idea of non-linearity itself does not seem to be contrary to common sense from the very beginning. Among the issues discussed in this book are the following: paradoxes; the concept of number; realism (as it should be understood within the concept); falsifiability, a peculiar aspect of the mind-body problem; universals; and other issues.
Contents
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Grammar
Chapter 4 The Grammar of Language and the Platonist
Chapter 5 Addition
Chapter 6 The Natural Numbers
Chapter 7 Iterations in Formal Arithmetic
Chapter 8 Numbers by Convention
Chapter 9 The Continuum Hypothesis
Chapter 10 The Rich Man's Argument
Chapter 11 The Laws of Logic
Chapter 12 Inferences
Chapter 13 Summary
Chapter 14 Extending Terms
Chapter 15 Terms as Points
Chapter 16 The Distinguishing Function
Chapter 17 Other Modes of Connection
Chapter 18 The Fixed Point Theorem
Chapter 19 "Fixed Points" in Language
Chapter 20 Wittgenstein's Language
Chapter 21 "The Philosophical I"
Chapter 22 The Paradox of Language
Chapter 23 The Dilemma of Language
Chapter 24 Another Mode of Connection
Chapter 25 The Metaphysical Solution
Chapter 26 The Ontological Solution
Chapter 27 The External World
Chapter 28 Realism Inferred
Chapter 29 "Fixed Points" and Physics
Chapter 30 Heraclites' Philosophy
Chapter 31 The Integrated View
Chapter 32 The Copenhagen Interpretation
Chapter 33 Systems of Distinctions
Chapter 34 Laws and Distinctions
Chapter 35 Skepticism
Chapter 36 Skepticism of Another Form
Chapter 37 Falsifiability
Chapter 38 The Grammar and the Grammar
Chapter 39 Entities in the Head
Chapter 40 Platonism
Part 41 Bibliography
Part 42 Name Index
Part 43 Subject Index
