8vo. vii, 178 pp, preface, 1. General Introduction; 2. Language as a Patterned System; 3. The Philosophy of Grammar; 4. Thought and Language; 5. The Many Uses of Language; 6. Linguistic Abuse and Linguistic Reform; 7. The Meanings of Meaning; bibliography, index. First American Edition, 1968. Brown cloth with red-bordered black tilte plate and gilt lettering to spine. "Begining with a discussion of the 'atomic nature' of language, the author explains and examines the notion of the phoneme -- the smallest significant unit of sound within a language and the building block of words. He then presents a second fundamental linguistic notion of the phoneme -- the smallest meaningful element of a language, and goes on to consider rules of association, sturcture of phrases, clauses and sentences and the realm of grammar, the relation between thought and language, the relationship between a word (or symbol) and that for which it stands and the theory of meaning." from the jacket flap.

The Labyrinth of Language (Britannica perspectives)

Black, Max

Reference

Praeger

"It is one of the merits of Max Black’s Companion to the Tractatus that he emphasizes the continuity of Wittgenstein’s philosophical development by frequent quotation from his later writings."—New York Review of Books "Black’s book is, in effect, two books in one, and each of them is very good. First, there is the useful Companion to the Tractatus: the store of information that anyone who picked up the Tractatus would want to have. . . . Second, there are the interpretive essays: always judicious, frequently illuminating. It is hard to see how [this book] could have been more complete."—Philosophical Books

A Companion to Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is an unquestioned philosophical masterpiece. It is a work of extreme compression. Within a compass of twenty thousand words, and in cryptic and elliptical sentences, Wittgenstein writes of the nature of the universe, the essence of language, the foundations of logic and mathematics, theories of probability, philosophical method, and the work of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege. Finding it difficult, if not distasteful, to force philosophical thoughts and insights into a linear deductive order, Wittgenstein also makes scattered comments about the philosophy of science, ethics, religion, and mysticism.
In A Companion to Wittgenstein’s "Tractatus," the distinguished philosopher Max Black provides students with a collocation of scattered passages and a close commentary on the text. This brilliant book allows readers to fully apprehend the value of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as both a unique text and as the foundation for much subsequent work in philosophy.

A Companion to Wittgenstein's "Tractatus"

Cornell University Press

Language and Philosophy Studies in Method

Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy

Cornell

Margins Of Precision, Essays In Logic &amp; Language

Margins Of Precision, Essays In Logic & Language

Ithaca, NY; Cornell Univ. Press; 1970

Like all of his work, these essays by Max Black are well written and cogently argued – models, in fact, of philosophical analysis in the Anglo-American style. Professor Black continues to develop in new and enlightening ways his long-standing interest in logic and induction. Reflecting the author’s widening interests, the book also contains essays on practical reasoning, the nature of symbolic and pictorial representation (with a full-scale examination of the influential views of Nelson Goodman), some polemical discussions of Noam Chomsky and B. F. Skinner, and an outline of tasks for a philosophy of the humanities. Contents include: 1) Reasonableness, 2) Induction and Experience, 3) Practical Reasoning, 4) Some Questions about Practical Reasoning, 5) The Logical Paradoxes, 6) The Elusiveness of Sets, 6) Meaning and Intention, 7) The nature of Representation, 8) The Structure of Symbols, 9) Paradigm Cases and Evaluative Words, 10) Questions for Chomsky, 11) Some Aversive Responses

Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays in Language, Logic, and Art

Literature & Fiction

The Prevalence of Humbug and Other Essays

Short Stories & Anthologies

Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles

Words, Language & Grammar

Cornell Univ Pr

A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Cornell Classics in Philosophy)

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