Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar / / Michael N. Forster.
What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its &qu...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
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Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE GRAMMAR, ARBITRARINESS, NON-ARBITRARINESS
- 1. Wittgenstein's Conception of Grammar
- 2. The Sense in Which Grammar Is Arbitrary
- 3. The Sense in Which Grammar Is Non-Arbitrary
- 4. Some Modest Criticisms
- PART TWO. THE DIVERSITY THESIS
- 5. Alternative Grammars? The Case of Formal Logic
- 6. Alternative Grammars? The Limits of Language
- 7. Alternative Grammars? The Problem of Access
- Appendix. The Philosophical Investigations
- Notes
- Index