On the north sea shore

Autores

  • Charles Travis King´s College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.29.047.AO02

Palavras-chave:

thoughts, concepts, grasping, structure.

Resumo

A thought makes truth turn in some given way on how things are. What it thus does decomposes in partial doings of this. For example, making truth turn on whether Sid is sober may decompose into making truth turn on which ways Sid is, and on which objects are sober. If we assume that a thought decomposed in just one such way. Such, then, would be a thought’s essential structure. That idea might then apply as follows. To hold a thought true one must first grasp it. To grasp it one must each element of its essential structure. If, say, those elements are making truth turn on Sid and making it turn on who is sober, then one must grasp what it would be for something to be Sid (and for something to be sober). The working assumption here is false. But in any case this application is mistaken. Or so this essay argues.

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Biografia do Autor

Charles Travis, King´s College

Charles Travis received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963, and his Ph. D. from UCLA in 1967. He has taught in the U.S., Canada, The Netherlands, and the U.K., having spent most of his career in the last three countries.

Before coming to King’s, he was a professor at Northwestern University, and before that at the University of Stirling. He has taught at many other places, including visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, and at Harvard

He speaks Dutch/Flemish, some French, and bits of Cantonese and Portuguese.

Referências

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FREGE, G. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik. Breslau: Wilhelm Koebner, 1884. (Bilingual edition. Translation J. L. Austin. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978).

FREGE, G. Logik in der Mathematik [1914]. In: FREGE, G. Nachgelassene Schriften. 2. ed. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1983. p. 219-270.

FREGE, G. Meine Grundlegenden Logischen Einsichten [1915]. In: FREGE, G. Nachgelassene Schriften. 2. ed. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1983. p. 271-272.

FREGE, G. Der Gedanke. Beiträge zur Piholophie de Deutschen Idealismus, v. 1, n. 2, 1918.

FREGE, G. Die Verneinung. Beiträge zu Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus, v. 1, n. 3-4, 1919.

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Publicado

2017-09-01

Como Citar

Travis, C. (2017). On the north sea shore. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 29(47). https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.29.047.AO02