Sunday, 30 August 2015
Carnap and Quine on Implication and Entailment
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According to Quine, Bertrand Russell (as well as others) confused “if-then” with “implies”. Quine said that “ there is much to...
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...
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