{"product_id":"wittgenstein-understanding-and-meaning-9781405199247","title":"Wittgenstein Understanding and Meaning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a much revised and extended new edition of \u003ci\u003ePart I\u003c\/i\u003e of the first volume of the monumental four-volume \u003ci\u003eAnalytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFollowing Baker's death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many essays completely\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePart I: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e now includes two completely new essays: ''Meaning and Use'' and ''The Recantation of a Metaphysician''; the essays: The Augustinian Conception of Language', The Language-Game Method', Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles', Philosophy', Surveyability and Surveyable Representations', and Truth and the General Propositional Form' are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe accompanying \u003ci\u003ePart II:Exegesis 1-184\u003c\/i\u003e - has been thoroughly revised in the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part I: Essays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote to the paperback edition 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI The Augustinian conception of language (§1).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII Explanation (§6).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII The language-game method (§7).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIV Descriptions and the uses of sentences (§18).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eV Ostensive definition and its ramifications (§28).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVI Indexicals (§39).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVII Logically proper names (§39).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVIII Meaning and use (§43).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIX Contextual dicta and contextual principles (§50).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eX The standard metre (§50).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXI Family resemblance (§65).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXII Proper names (§79).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIII Turning the inquiry round: the recantation of a metaphysician (§89).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXIV Philosophy (§109).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXV Surveyability and surveyable representations (§122).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXVI Truth and the general propositional form (§134).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eXVII Understanding and ability (§143).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The place of the elucidation of understanding in the \u003ci\u003eInvestigations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Meaning and understanding as the soul of signs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Categorial misconceptions of understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Categorial clarification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(a) Understanding is not an experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(b) Understanding is not a process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(c) Understanding is not a mental state.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(d) Understanding is neither a dispositional state of the brain nor a disposition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Powers and abilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Understanding and ability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407932236119,"sku":"9781405199247","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405199247.jpg?v=1730500999","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wittgenstein-understanding-and-meaning-9781405199247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}