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The Unity of the Proposition

Richard Gaskin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th Oct '08

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Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He 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 he identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, his account of the unity of the proposition has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality. He 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 regress has been regarded as vicious, but Gaskin argues that it is the metaphysical ground of the propositional unity, and gives us an important insight into the fundamental make-up of the world.

Gaskin's book demands engagement from everyone interested in the problem of the unity of the proposition... But perhaps more impressively than that, this book deserves to make the number of people intered in its subject-matter substantially greater. * Graham Stevens, The Philosophical Quarterly (Oct 2010) *

ISBN: 9780199239450

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 30mm

Weight: 857g

472 pages