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Invisible Language: Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy
Contributor(s): Hallett, Garth L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0739182862     ISBN-13: 9780739182864
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
OUR PRICE: $139.65  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Language
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
- Philosophy | Epistemology
Dewey: 121.68
LCCN: 2013047493
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.10 lbs) 242 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility of language has exercised a far more profound influence in philosophy than even Wittgenstein came close to demonstrating. Indeed, without that pervasive factor of language, the history of philosophy would have been undeniably different. Yet philosophy is, and can legitimately aspire to be, much more than a struggle between language and human comprehension of it. Ultimately, this book suggests that philosophy's positive possibilities, so often obscured by linguistically-inattentive practice, reach as far as human thought can reach.
 
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