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Friday, 28 August 2015

Strawson and Wittgenstein on Descriptive Philosophy

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The English philosopher P.F. Strawson (1919–2006) helped to define the notion of “descriptive metaphysics” and also defend it as an ac...
Thursday, 27 August 2015

Saul Kripke’s Self-referential Sentence

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“ Let 'Jack' be a name of the sentience 'Jack is short', and we have a sentence that says of itself that it is short....
Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Wittgenstein's Generalisations About Generalisations

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Firstly here's a quote from the philosopher Gilbert Ryle in which he talks about Wittgenstein’s general distaste for generalisati...
Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Heterological & Homological Metalinguistic Statements

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Various statements can taken as being either homological or heterological in nature. A heterological predicate, statement or senten...
Monday, 24 August 2015

Truth: Its Metaphysics, Epistemology and Semantics

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We can say that epistemology essentially concerns itself with two things: truth and our “relationship to truth”. Many philosophers, ...
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