Pdf absolute identity and absolute generality researchgate. The nature and function of porous concepts, the southern. A835, g2, a1030, a1230, e840s, e1035, e1235, a735, g series, a series, e. An examination of some medieval and modern theories contemporary. In chapter 7 of the twentiethcentury english logician peter geachs 19621980 reference and generality, geach discusses the words only and alone, remarking that medieval logicians were greatly interested in exclusive propositions, but their treatment of them was on the whole superficial. Peter thomas geach fba was a british philosopher and professor of logic at the university of. The purpose and usefulness of the doctrine within ockhams logic the socalled theory of modes ofpersonal supposition, in particular ockhams version of it, has been a recurring source of perplexity to recent commentators. Reference and generality, an examination of some medieval. Topiccomment, presupposition, logical form and focus stress. An examination of some medieval and modern theories. This is an unrevised draft of the paper that appeared in philosophical studies. In the particular case of identity, few have found geachs arguments for his. The definitional issues associated with discourse and discourse analysis are by no means unique.
Geach and the methodology of the logical study of natural. The routledge philosophy guidebook to frege on sense and reference helps the student to get to grips with freges thought, and introduces and assesses. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. If a function has been deprecated in a newer version of gdk, it is possible to use this symbol to avoid the compiler warnings without disabling warning for every deprecated function. Frege, in the light of the controversy between dummett and geach as to. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content modes of personal supposition. Frege essentially reconceived the discipline of logic by constructing a formal system which, in effect, constituted the first predicate calculus. Pdf the aim of this chapter is to tighten our grip on some issues. The true, the false, and the slingshot arguments oswaldo chateaubriand pucrio, cnpq it is a great pleasure for me to contribute to this festschrift in honor of luiz carlos pereiras 60th birthday. His areas of interest were philosophical logic, ethics, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and the theory of identity. The paper examines the notion of the sense of a predicate, as stemming from frege, in the light of the controversy between dummett and geach as to whether the sense of a predicate is a way of getting to the reference of the predicate or rather a. Temporal continuity oxford, 1967, parts 1 and 2, and peter geach, reference and generality ithaca, 1962, ch. Pronouns, quantifiers, and relative clauses l canadian journal. Aristotelian or neoaristotelian metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance.
The handbook of discourse analysis pdf free download. Reference and generality, an examination of some medieval and modern theories by geach, p. Pdf the true, the false, and the slingshot arguments. An examination of some medieval and modern theories peter thomas geach on. In his introductory chapter on pragmatics, 2 introduction. Peter thomas geach, reference and generality philpapers. An examination of some medieval and modern theories contemporary philosophy p. Quantifier problems beyond uniformity sciencedirect. Cornell university press, ithaca and london 1980, 231 pp. Chapter 1 glib overview glib is a generalpurpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities. In this paper i describe the environment in which formal. Formal semantics and pragmatics as they have developed since the late 1960s have been shaped by fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration among linguists, philosophers, and logicians, among others, and in turn have had noticeable effects on developments in syntax, philosophy of language, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. The definition should be one of the predefined gdk version macros.
Theories of masses and problems of constitution dean w. A central problem for expressivism, thus characterised, is the frege geach problem, the problem of accounting for the meanings of moral sentences as they appear in unasserted contexts such as the. A categorytheoretic approach to aristotles term logic, with. The word in medieval logic, theology and psychology.
In his admirably clear and enjoyable book, being for, mark schroeder 2008 undertakes a partial defence of metaethical expressivism. In his twovolume reference book on semantics, for example, lyons 1997 illustrates ten different uses of the word mean, and thus an equal number of possible domains of the field of semantics. Volume iii chiefly contains studies on freges theory of sense and reference, generally. Contemporary aristotelian metaphysics edited by tuomas e. Walter ott proposes an interpretation of lockes thesis in which words signify ideas in the mind of the speaker, and argues that rather than employing such notions as sense or reference, locke relies on an ancient tradition that understands signification as reliable indication. In this paper we discuss some recent results and insights in the formal theory of interpretation, especially the rise of systems of dynamic interpreta. An examination of some medieval and modern theories p. Review zeno vendler 1984 journal of symbolic logic 49 2. Of course geach is not denying the possibility of using pronouns and thephrases in their anaphoric function in this way. Professor geach states that this collection contains all of his articles not previously collected or edited in any of his other works such as reference and generality, three philosophers. While accepting that distribution is a coherent notion, i argue that it is nevertheless irrelevant to the working of the syllogism. What he is denying is the appropriateness of describing their mode of operation in terms of references to one and the same individual. Read identity, midwest studies in philosophy on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.
This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. Geach, p 1980, reference and generality, 3rd edn, ithaca. Geach has arranged the articles not in a chronological fashion but rather topically under ten different headings. An examination of some medieval and modern theories contemporary philosophy. Geach reference and generality cornell 1962 for the. Syl log isms free download as powerpoint presentation. This book examines john lockes claims about the nature and workings of language. This macro defines the lower bound for the gdk api to use. Two types of denotation, in studies in logical theory, ed.
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