#michael dummett

[rhianna]

Tarocchi-players-borromeo.jpg

Description

English: This fresco is commonly known as The Tarocchi Players. It is from the Casa Borromeo, in Milan, and was probably painted in the 1440s.Date15th centurySourceScanned from Michael Dummett's The Game of Tarot.AuthorThe artist is unknown.

[seafood-disco]

“Only with Frege was the proper object of philosophy finally established: namely, first, that the goal of philosophy is the analysis of the structure of thought; secondly, that the study of thought is to be sharply distinguished from the study of the psychological process of thinking; and, finally, that the only proper method for analysing thought consists in the analysis of language. …The acceptance of these three tenets is common to the entire analytical school.”

-Michael Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas

[webateneo]

Michael Dummett - The Game of Tarot

Michael Dummett – The Game of Tarot

The Game of Tarot Michael Dummett. Editore: Duckworth - 1980, 600 pp, illustrato. ISBN - 0715610147 Testo fondamentale per lo studio dei Tarocchi, la loro origine e i giuochi possibili che si effettuavano sin dalla loro apparizione. Purtroppo la rarità del testo – e conseguentemente il suo costo elevato – lo rendono una opera di difficile consultazione. Sir Michael Dummett, a well-known British…

View On WordPress

[amaefaiciochevuoi]

[probaway]

Philosophers Squared – Michael Dummett

Philosophers Squared – Michael Dummett

Go to the Index of 120 Philosophers Squared

Michael Dummett (1925 – 2011) was a British philosopher of mathematics, logic, language. Some changes add to the expressive power of language, while others diminish it: we should resist the latter and encourage the former.

Michael Dummett

Quotations from Michael Dummett

Philosophy can take us no further than enabling us to command a clear view of the…

View On WordPress

[thetwomeatmeal]

It might be objected that someone who knows a sentence to be true must also know the proposition expressed by that sentence, on the ground that if he knows enough about the meaning of the word 'true' to be credited with the knowledge that the sentence is true, he must know the connection between knowing something and knowing it to be true ... For instance, he must know that 'Horses are called "horses" ' is true if and only if horses are called 'horses': hence, since by assumption he knows that 'Horses are called "horses" ' is true, he will, if he is capable of performing a simple inference, also be capable of knowing that horses are called 'horses'. But this objection derives its plausibility from ignoring in its premiss the distinction which it purported to demonstrate to be without substance, that, namely, between knowing that a sentence is true and knowing the proposition it expresses. We may justifiably credit someone who does not know what 'horse' means, but who knows that it is a meaningful general term, with the knowledge that the T-sentence, ' "Horses are called 'horses' " is true if and only if horses are called "horses" ', is true; but to assume, as the argument requires, that he knows that 'Horses are called "horses" ' is true if and only if horses are called 'horses' is to beg the question.

Michael Dummett, “What is a theory of meaning?” (1975)

[yuuki-o]

顔を見るまで

Just posted on my blog: 顔を見るまで

必然性は何に由来するのか。必然性は人間の営みとは独立した何かに由来するという立場を「実在論realism」、これを否定し、必然性は人間の営みに依存するという立場を「アンチ実在論anti-realism」と呼ぶと、後者が 取り得る形の一つとして規約主義conventionalismがある。簡単に言えば、必然的なものとは、われわれ人間がそのように扱おうと規約によって取り決めたもののことであるという立場だ。

(more…)

View On WordPress

[yuuki-o]

Dummett's prescient plaint

Just posted on my blog: Dummett's prescient plaint

Michael Dummett famously declared that he was always disappointed with a book lacking a preface. He wrote: “it is like arriving at someone’s house for dinner, and being conducted straight into the dining-room” (Frege: Philosophy of Language [Harper & Row, 1973], ix). His own prefaces to the two large Frege monographs are both memorable. The Preface to the second of the duology, Frege: Philosophy…

View On WordPress