ABSTRACT
First published in 2002. This is Volume XV of seventeen in the Library of Philosophy series on Metaphysics. Written in 1939, this book looks at Language and Reality and the Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism and is related to the movement of Logical Positivism, initiated by Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |379 pages
The Philosophy of Language
chapter |36 pages
Language and Reality: The Theme of a Philosophy of Language
chapter |38 pages
What is Language? Origin and Development the Science of Language
chapter |39 pages
Language as the Bearer of Meaning: What it is to Understand
chapter |59 pages
The Normative Problem of Language: Linguistic Validity
chapter |40 pages
Intelligible Communication: Its Nature and Conditions
chapter |62 pages
Language and Logic: the “Logical Analysis” of Language
chapter |68 pages
Language and Cognition: The Metalogical Problems of Language
part |331 pages
The Principles of Symbolism
