ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with three specific thinkers in the area of Philosophy of Language, S. Schiffer, J. Fodor and F. Dretske, finding them struggling, for want of the clarity logic provides. It discusses some Wittgensteinian themes, but also using, or relying on several mathematical results. The book focuses on the philosophy of mathematics towards Wittgensteinian concerns, specifically criticising K. Godel, D. T. Langendoen and P. Postal, and J. Katz for their views about infinity; also generality of thinkers in this area for their continuing interest in meta-mathematics, and Godel’s theorems. The consequent nature of counting is central to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on Mathematics which construes mathematical concepts like Number and Triangle in terms of the language games we play in connection with things in the world.
