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Language, World, and Limits - Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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Language, World, and Limits - Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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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
some things are beyond representation. The essays in Part Two deal
with representation more generally and with the character of what
is represented, and owe much to Bernard Williams's argument for the
possibility of representation from no point of view. They touch
more or less directly on the distinction between representation
from a point of view and representation from no point of view-in
some cases by exploring various consequences of Kant's belief that
representation of how things are physically is always, eo ipso,
representation from a point of view. One thesis that surfaces at
various points is that nothing is beyond representation. Each of
the essays in Part Three, which draw inspiration from the early
work of Wittgenstein, indicate how the resulting tension between
Parts One and Two is to be resolved: namely, by construing the
first part as a thesis about states of knowledge or understanding,
and the second part as a thesis about facts or truths.
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