Research Catalog

Title

Presence and absence : a philosophical investigation of language and being / Robert Sokolowski.

Author

Sokolowksi, Robert

Publication

Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press, [2017]

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Description

xviii, 188 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Presence and Absence is a book of importance for all who are actively engaged in the philosophical enterprise, whatever their differing persuasions. It shows philosophy to be flourishing in the midst of its own self-proclaimed signs of morbidity.

Alternative Title

Presence & absence

Subject

Presence (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Five ways of naming things -- Nouns, verbs, and contexts -- How names are given -- A sequence of indications -- The origins of syntax -- Complications of syntax in four directions, the proposition -- Words and sentences are achievements -- The proposition as achievement -- The proposition as a rule for sentences -- The sentence as a signal for propositional achievement -- Four series of refinements -- Recognizing essentials -- Philosophy: analysis of the kinds of presentation -- First philosophy: analysis of being as being -- Thinking beyond philosophy.

ISBN

• 9780813230085
• 081323008X

OCLC

1006509748

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library