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20 Past, Present, and Future
An Overview
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- The Issue of Language’s Authority 1
- The Question’s Centrality 13
- Plato’s Recourse to Nonlinguistic Forms 19
- Aquinas and the Primacy of Mental Truth 25
- The Tractatus 33
- Carnap’s Limited Linguistic Turn 43
- Tarski, Truth, and Claims of Linguistic Incoherence 53
- Wittgenstein’s Acceptance of the Authority of Language 61
- Wittgenstein versusTheoretical “Intuitions” 73
- Flew and Paradigm-Case Arguments 83
- Russell’s Critique of “Common Sense” 91
- Malcolm and the “Ordinary-Language” Debate 101
- Austin, Statements, and Their Truth 107
- A Lead Overlooked 115
- Kripke, Putnam, and Rigid Designation 125
- Quine, Linguistic Truths, and Holistic Theory 137
- Quine, Indeterminacy, and the Opacity of Language 149
- Rorty, Stich, and Pragmatic Assertability 157
- Habermas, Communicative Speech, and Validity 165
- Past, Present, and Future 171
- Notes 185
- Bibliography 213
- Index 231
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- The Issue of Language’s Authority 1
- The Question’s Centrality 13
- Plato’s Recourse to Nonlinguistic Forms 19
- Aquinas and the Primacy of Mental Truth 25
- The Tractatus 33
- Carnap’s Limited Linguistic Turn 43
- Tarski, Truth, and Claims of Linguistic Incoherence 53
- Wittgenstein’s Acceptance of the Authority of Language 61
- Wittgenstein versusTheoretical “Intuitions” 73
- Flew and Paradigm-Case Arguments 83
- Russell’s Critique of “Common Sense” 91
- Malcolm and the “Ordinary-Language” Debate 101
- Austin, Statements, and Their Truth 107
- A Lead Overlooked 115
- Kripke, Putnam, and Rigid Designation 125
- Quine, Linguistic Truths, and Holistic Theory 137
- Quine, Indeterminacy, and the Opacity of Language 149
- Rorty, Stich, and Pragmatic Assertability 157
- Habermas, Communicative Speech, and Validity 165
- Past, Present, and Future 171
- Notes 185
- Bibliography 213
- Index 231