The Unity of the Proposition
Richard Gaskin
Abstract
This book is about the philosophy of language. It analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express — what marks them off from mere lists of words and mere aggregates of word-meanings respectively. Since it identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, the book's account of the unity of the proposition has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality. The book argues that the unity of the proposition is constituted by a certain infinitistic structure known in the tradition as ‘Bradley's regress’. Usually, Bradley's regres ... More
Keywords: philosophy of language, sentences, propositions, word-meanings, unity, reality, Bradley's regress, propositional unity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199239450 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239450.001.0001 |
