Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics

by A.W. Moore

These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their nature, the sorites paradox, and the very distinction between sense and nonsense. Wittgenstein's work, both early and late, figures prominently. One thesis that surfaces at various points is that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198823649
• ISBN13: 9780198823643
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"