By Richard Gaskin
ISBN-10: 0415224462
ISBN-13: 9780415224468
This e-book is a scientific and ancient exploration of the philosophical importance of grammar. within the first 1/2 the 20 th century, and specifically within the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there has been sustained philosophical mirrored image at the nature of grammar, and at the relevance of grammar to metaphysics, good judgment and technology.
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But what makes Wittgenstein so sure that we would be able to translate the wood-sellers at all, let alone translate them as he does? We are here in familiar Davidsonian territory. Davidson has repeatedly and rightly insisted that in order to interpret purported language users in such a way as to make them (by our lights) wrong, we must presuppose a considerable background of correctness in their beliefs: otherwise we should simply be unable to get enough purchase on their language to determine the content of their supposedly wrong beliefs.
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