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The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Hardcover)
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The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Hardcover)
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The problem of the unity of the proposition is almost as old as
philosophy itself, and was one of the central themes of early
analytical philosophy, greatly exercising the minds of Frege,
Russell, Wittgenstein, and Ramsey. The problem is how propositions
or meanings can be simultaneously unities (single things) and
complexes, made up of parts that are autonomous of the positions
they happen to fill in any given proposition. The problem has been
associated with numerous paradoxes and has motivated general
theories of thought and meaning, but has eluded any consensual
resolution; indeed, the problem is sometimes thought to be wholly
erroneous, a result of atomistic assumptions we should reject. In
short, the problem has been thought to be of merely historical
interest. Collins argues that the problem is very real and poses a
challenge to any theory of linguistic meaning. He seeks to resolve
the problem by laying down some minimal desiderata on a solution
and presenting a uniquely satisfying account. The first part of the
book surveys and rejects extant 'solutions' and dismissals of the
problem from (especially) Frege and Russell, and a host of more
contemporary thinkers, including Davidson and Dummett. The book's
second part offers a novel solution based upon the properties of a
basic syntactic principle called 'Merge', which may be said to
create objects inside objects, thus showing how unities can be both
single things but also made up of proper parts. The solution is
defended from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. The
overarching ambition of the book, therefore, is to strengthen the
ties between current linguistics and contemporary philosophy of
language in a way that is genuinely sensitive to the history of
both fields.
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