Priest, Graham.
Beyond the limits of thought.
2nd ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Chapter 14 covers the later Wittgenstein before turning to Derrida. As we
know, Wittgenstein later repudiated the Tractatus, reverting from mystical
logicism to a much more
Priest, Graham.
Beyond the limits of thought.
2nd ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Chapter 13 is titled Translation, Reference, and Truth. Here is where
Priest engages Quine, Davidson, and others.
The postulation of semantic correlates is deep-sixed by
Sorry, folks, my diagram got completely screwed up by Eudora, dammit! I
don't know how to fix this in an email format.
reality -
--- thought - language -
--- mathematics-logic -- concepts
Homo sapiens today suffers from species snobbery or a related infection.
This is why it devotes so much energy to the issue of the discovery of alien
forms of intelligent life. It is as if the discovery of alien intelligent
life forms is something to be sought after more than other life forms
This might seem like a silly question, but one is bound to forget something
when confronted with internet information overload. I'm so used to
consulting the Marxist Internet Archive for materials, I tend to forget
about other relevant sites. Two recent occurrences reminded me of the need
to
