Sprachlogik

Yes, but does Nature have no say at all here?! Yes. It is just that she makes herself heard in a different way. Wittgenstein (MS 137). ...

Topics this time include: false thoughts, psychological impossibility, metaphilosophy, losing the use of a concept as it gets problematized ...

The following remarks were written around 2010 - early 2011, when I was training myself in Wittgenstein's later methods. 1. In some c...

Introduction   In 1974, Donalad Davidson published a now famous paper entitled 'On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme', in which...

This is part 2 of a Sketch of a Way of Thinking about Modality . In this part we shall consider: - Essences and the de re / de dicto dis...

Here . (Readers who like Sprachlogik for its clear-headedness are duly warned that this title is no joke.)

[This is old and my thinking on the subject has changed quite a bit (for the better I'm pretty sure). It may be of historical interest,...