Wittgenstein's later theory of meaning: imagination and calculation: [enlarged and completely revised version of one of the chapters of author's Phantasie und Kalkül, 1992]

By exploring the significance of Wittgenstein's later texts relating to the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein's Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher. Explores the significance of Wittgenstein's later texts relating to the philosophy of language, and offers new insights that transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher Provides original interpretations of the systematic points about language in Wittgenstein's later writings that reveal his theory of meaning Engages in close readings of a variety of Wittgenstein's later texts to explore what the philosopher really had to say about ‘kinds of words'and ‘parts of speech'Frees Wittgenstein from his reputation as an unsystematic thinker with nothing to offer but ‘therapy'for individual cases of philosophical confusion Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. The Fregean Perspective And Concomitant Expectations One Brings To Wittgenstein -- 2. How A Language Game Becomes Extended -- 3. Kinds Of Expression -- 4. Function In Language Games And In Sentential Contexts -- 5. The Sound Of A Sentence I: Singing From The Score -- 6. Projection: No Mere Mapping But A Creative Activity -- 7. The Sound Of A Sentence Ii: Surface Grammar -- 8. Complexity -- 9. An Integration Of Wittgenstein And Frege? -- 10. Dummett's Doubts And Frege's Concept Of Sense -- 11. Wittgenstein On Communicating Something -- 12. Grammatical Sense And Syntactic Metaphor: A Wittgensteinian Solution -- 13. A Theory Of Meaning -- In What Sense?. Hans Julius Schneider ; Translated From The German By Timothy Doyle And Daniel Smyth. Enlarged And Completely Revised Version Of One Of The Chapters Of Author's Phantasie Und Kalkül, 1992. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Acknowledgments vii Foreword by Charles Taylor viii Introduction 1 1 The Fregean Perspective and Concomitant Expectations One Brings to Wittgenstein 7 2 How a Language Game Becomes Extended 21 3 Kinds of Expression 35 4 Function in Language Games and in Sentential Contexts 47 5 The Sound of a Sentence I: Singing from the Score 67 6 Projection: No Mere Mapping but a Creative Activity 83 7 The Sound of a Sentence II: Surface Grammar 98 8 Complexity 104 9 An Integration of Wittgenstein and Frege? 115 10 Dummett s Doubts and Frege s Concept of Sense 128 11 Wittgenstein on Communicating Something 137 12 Grammatical Sense and Syntactic Metaphor : A Wittgensteinian Solution 152 13 A Theory of Meaning In What Sense? 166 Index 180 By exploring the significance of Wittgenstein s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein s Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher.