PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Universal Quantification
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Lecture 12: paradoxes of analysis by prof. sven bernecker. Plato (428/427 or 424/423 348/347 bc: philosopher and mathematician in classical greece, called it the paradox of inquiry . George edward g. e. moore (1873 1958: british philosopher who taught at the university of cambridge, worked in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Cooper harold c. h. langford (1895 1964: irish philosopher and mathematical logician, taught at the university of michigan. Five conditions of philosophical (or conceptual/meaning) analysis: an analysis has the logical form of a universally quantified biconditional. Biconditional = statement that establishes an identity between two things (precisely what a definition does) Universally quantified = it applies in each and every case; the definition is as exception-less as the law of nature. If there is an exception, then you account for it in the definition: an analysis is necessarily true. It is true in all possible worlds (different descriptions of our reality: an analysis is informative.
