Language and the structure of Berkeley's world /

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish bishop, considered among the great philosophers of early modern Europe. Pearce develops a new interpretation of Berkeley's philosophy which emphasizes the importance of Berkeley's revolutionary theory of language and shows that Berkeley has gr...

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Problem: Structure --
Solution: Language --
Aims and Methodology --
Summary of the Chapters --
Berkeley's Attack on Meanings --
Theory of Meanings --
Dialectical Structure of Berkeley's Attack --
Case against Abstraction --
phenomenological appeal --
impossibility of abstract ideas --
uselessness of abstract ideas --
Conclusion --
Berkeley's Early Thoughts on Language --
General Words --
Operative Language --
Mathematical and Scientific Language --
Arithmetic and algebra --
Geometry --
Physics --
Berkeley's Theory of Language in Alciphron 7 --
Overview of the Dialogue --
General Theory of Language --
Meaning as Use --
Ideational and Operative Language --
Rules and Rule-Following --
Implicit and Explicit Rule-Following --
Rules and Knowledge --
Conventional Rules of Language --
Inference Rules --
Reference and Quasi-Reference --
Labeling --
Generalizing --
Labeling and Existence --
Quasi-Referring --
Metaphysics of Quasi-Entities --
Quasi-Referring to Bodies --
Against Materialist Semantics --
Bodies as Linguistic Constructions --
Alternative Interpretations --
Subjunctive interpretations --
Idea interpretations --
Richness of Berkeleian Bodies --
Knowledge of Bodies --
Predication --
Existence, Reality, Identity --
Referring to Spirits and Their Actions --
Referring to Actions --
Referring to Spirits --
Assent and Truth --
Nature of Assent --
Assent without ideas --
Scientific knowledge: Berkeley's anti-skepticism --
Religious faith: Berkeley's replies to Toland and Browne --
Partial assent --
Nature of Truth --
Truth and usefulness --
Degrees of truth --
Holism --
Fit with reality --
Linguistic Structure of Berkeley's World --
Literal Language of Nature --
Visual language --
Other sense modalities --
Lexicography: Co-Instantiation --
Syntax: Causation and Laws --
Excursus on Common Sense and Natural Science --
Semantics --
Informing and instructing about ideas --
Informing about other finite minds --
Informing about God --
interpretation of the discourse of nature.
1. Verfasser:
Pearce, Kenneth L.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Anglo-Irish bishop, considered among the great philosophers of early modern Europe. Pearce develops a new interpretation of Berkeley's philosophy which emphasizes the importance of Berkeley's revolutionary theory of language and shows that Berkeley has greater relevance to current philosophy than has been thought.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) : illustration
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-250755-9
0-19-183962-0
0-19-250754-0
Schlagworte:
Berkeley, George, > 1685-1753.
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