ABSTRACT

This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of grammar, and on the relevance of grammar to metaphysics, logic and science.

chapter |27 pages

Introduction

Proposition and world

chapter |20 pages

Categories, construction, and congruence

Husserl's tactics of meaning