Language and World
Language and World
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语言与世界
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2020
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R. Gaskin
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R. Gaskin
这本书捍卫了语言唯心主义的一个版本，即世界是语言的产物。在为这个激进的论点辩护的过程中，加斯金在当代形而上学、语言哲学、哲学逻辑和句法理论中提出了广泛的话题。加斯金从语境和组合性原则以及塔斯基-戴维森传统中的系统意义理论出发，认为句子是语言意义的主要单位，意义的主要方面，即意义和指称，本身就是理论假设。本体是在语言驱动下产生的，它与指称相关。这种语言理想主义与接受科学客观性的现实主义相结合，因此与经验实用主义相区别。加斯金认为，存在着一个基本的形而上学层面，在这个层面上，一切都可以用语言来表达;但语言唯心主义的辩护是微妙的，因为还有一个派生的层面，不对称地依赖于基本层面，在这个层面上，现实可以摆脱语言，进入无法命名和无法描述的领域。
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from the context and compositionality principles, and the idea of a systematic theory of meaning in the Tarski–Davidson tradition, Gaskin argues that the sentence is the primary unit of linguistic meaning, and that the main aspects of meaning, sense and reference, are themselves theoretical posits. Ontology, which is correlative with reference, emerges as language-driven. This linguistic idealism is combined with a realism that accepts the objectivity of science, and it is accordingly distinguished from empirical pragmatism. Gaskin contends that there is a basic metaphysical level at which everything is expressible in language; but the vindication of linguistic idealism is nuanced inasmuch as there is also a derived level, asymmetrically dependant on the basic level, at which reality can break free of language and reach into the realms of the unnameable and indescribable.