Statement and Referent: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Our Conceptual Order: 224 (Synthese Library, 224) - Hardcover

Shwayder, D.S.

 
9780792318033: Statement and Referent: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Our Conceptual Order: 224 (Synthese Library, 224)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 079231803X ISBN 13: 9780792318033
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

This treatise, in its first part, moves from a consideration of behaviour and utterance through a definition of assertion as a kind of utterance to a consideration of statements, conceived of as products of assertion, to be represented by pairs of testing procedures of verification and falsification. The treatise, in its second part, identifies a small number of basic forms of testing procedures, affiliated to the "syncategoremata" of classical philosophy, and uses these to represent all distinguishable, humanly producible, forms of statement. This same apparatus is used, in the third part of the treatise, to explain our conception of an object of reference and of various constructions from such objects. Particular attention is given to bodies and to other things met with in space and time, where it is finally argued that bodies, as we have explained them, are our most fundamental objects of reference.

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Synopsis

This treatise, in its first part, moves from a consideration of behaviour and utterance through a definition of assertion as a kind of utterance to a consideration of statements, conceived of as products of assertion, to be represented by pairs of testing procedures of verification and falsification. The treatise, in its second part, identifies a small number of basic forms of testing procedures, affiliated to the "syncategoremata" of classical philosophy, and uses these to represent all distinguishable, humanly producible, forms of statement. This same apparatus is used, in the third part of the treatise, to explain our conception of an object of reference and of various constructions from such objects. Particular attention is given to bodies and to other things met with in space and time, where it is finally argued that bodies, as we have explained them, are our most fundamental objects of reference.

About the Author

David Shwayder retired in the late 1980s after teaching philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan, as well as other universities.

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Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
079231803X
ISBN 13 
9780792318033
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
108