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7Review of Gareth Evans and John McDowell: Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics_; L. K. KEENAN: _Formal Semanties of Natural Language (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 30 (4): 411-418. 1979.
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35Bradley, Collingwood and The Presuppositions of Critical HistoryBradley Studies 3 (1): 5-24. 1997.Bradley’s first work, The Presuppositions of Critical History, was published in 1874 when he was 28, and was followed shortly by the publication of Ethical Studies ‘in 1876. T.S. Eliot, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Bradley and was a great admirer of not only his philosophy but also his prose, described the British philosopher as a ‘master of style’; but that of The Presuppositions often seems over embellished, even a little pretentious. Moreover, though the argument is dense it is compressed…Read more
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19Grammar in Philosophy By Bede Rundle Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1979, viii + 491 pp., £14.00 (review)Philosophy 58 (226): 554-. 1983.
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1Saussure: Signs, System and ArbitrarinessCambridge University Press. 1991.The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure has exerted a profound influence not only on twentieth century linguistics but on a whole range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. His central thesis was that the primary object in studying a language is the state of that language at a particular time – a so-called synchronic study. He went on to claim that a language state is a socially constituted system of signs that are quite arbitrary and that can only be defined in terms of th…Read more
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University of LeedsRetired faculty
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Law |