The volume thus traces the development of McGinn's ideas and their role in some central philosophical debates. Seen together the essays offer a many-sided defence of realism, while emphasizing the epistemological price thatrealism exacts.
Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic"
Knowledge and Reality
and meaning does (think of giving the meaning of 'water is wet' in English and in Twin Earth English). So there is a recipe for putting meaning together again; but what is the theoretical motive for doing so?
of meaning and reference have invariably subscribed to an ontology of such distinct entities . Whether these are considered to be physical objects or just objects of sense - experience , as long as they are capable of identification and ...
that would make it possible to state that the meaning of observation sentences (and their truth value) is logically determined by observation, by the conditions of their empirical application. The principles in question are those of (1) ...
Either it does not yield any meaning at all or its meaning is not compatible with what we had expected” (1989: 268). (4) “We cannot stick blindly to our own fore-meaning about the thing if we want to understand the meaning of another.
A handy collection of readings regarding the philosophical areas of Epistemology and Metaphysics that includes both historical and contemporary works, this book gives the reader a sense...
An examination of the relationship of judgment, logic and knowledge, published in 1885, by one of Britain's most influential philosophers.